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  Can developing countries achieve adequate improvements in child health outcomes without engaging the private sector?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003

  The private sector exerts a significant and critical influence on child health outcomes in developing countries. This article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization reviews the available evidence on private sector utilisation and quality of care.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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  Financing housing for the urban poor: opportunities for civil society-state-private sector collaboration

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The value of real estate held, but not legally owned, by the poor in the developing world, is at least US$9.3 trillion. How can this massive asset base be most effectively valued, applied and leveraged? How can community housing finance initiatives be connected to formal financial mechanisms?
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  Private sector participation in water and sanitation: promises and pitfalls

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The perception that governments cannot efficiently provide water and sanitation (WSS) services has led to greatly increased private sector participation (PSP). Are regulatory regimes ensuring that service providers do not exploit their customers? Can PSPs save water and make it safer? Are the poor getting basic services?
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  Public versus private sector supply of contraceptives: balancing conflicting objectives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Universal access to contraceptives is a key goal of sexual and reproductive health programmes. But what is the best way to supply them? Donated or subsidised contraceptive supplies raise questions of sustainability whereas there are concerns that market-based distribution has negative impacts on equity and access.
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  PPPs, PWUs or PUPs? Alternatives to private sector water delivery

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Has the case for water privatisation been exaggerated? Are public sector water providers really that inefficient? Could public sector water undertakings (PWUs) or public-public partnerships (PUPs) between northern and southern public water utilities be more efficient, pro-poor, and more accountable than the much-vaunted and better- known Anglo-French model of public private partnerships (PPPs)?
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  Public and private roles in health: theory and financing patterns

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1996

  Health systems are complicated in principle and extremely varied in practice, so it is not easy to reach conclusions about the appropriate role of the state in the health sector.
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  Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

  TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002

  This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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  Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.
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  The UNDP Round Tables and the private Sector: an issue Paper

  Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2001

  This document investigates the possibility of using "Round Tables" to encourage external private flows and to promote the development of the local private sector.The main findings are as follows: LDCs have not benefited as much as other developing countries in the dramatic increase in private flows that took place during the last decade LDCs in general, and Round Table countries in

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