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Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ActionAid International, 2004This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.DocumentCurrent state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED andDocumentPrivate sector involvement in policy making in a poverty-stricken liberal democracy
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2003Looks at the attempt by Zambia to operate a system of advocacy pluralism, involving the private sector and civil society in policy setting.DocumentMaking markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003This report provides a basic descriptive framework and a source of knowledge on poverty focused private sector development.DocumentPoverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003This 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.DocumentWater privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka
South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.DocumentThe rural poor, the private sector and markets: changing interactions in Southern Africa
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003Is current development thinking in Southern Africa correct in claiming that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement are the basis for future economic growth in the region?DocumentDoes informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India
International Labour Organization, 2001This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.DocumentPrivatisation and poverty: the distributional impact of utility privatisation
Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002This paper examines the relative distributional impact of utility privatisation to consider whether the policy is likely to relieve or exacerbate the quality of life of those on very low incomes.DocumentWorking with the private sector on pro-poor tourism: opinions and experience from two development practitioners
Pro-Poor Tourism Partnership, 2003Tourism has not to date been a focus for development agencies but there is nevertheless a considerable amount of activity in the tourism sector that links private sector and development sector interests. This short note briefly explains this engagement and seeks to draw a few lessons that have been learnt about engaging with business from a pro-poor perspective.Pages
