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  Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  Government support to private infrastructure projects in emerging markets

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
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  Domestic Causes of Currency Crises: Policy Lessons for Crisis Avoidance

  East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998

  Focusses on those countries with excellent macroeconomic fundamentals that recently turned from financial-market darlings to financial-crisis victims within months: Chile 1982, Mexico 1994 and now the five Asian victims.
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  Prerequisites for a Development-Oriented State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Analyzes the enormous obstacles that the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces in forming a stable, development-oriented state. No government could design, implement, and finance a development program for the country without coordinated analytical and financial support from the international community.
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  Pastoralists, paravets and privatisation: experiences in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996

  The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID, visited Sanaag region in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland.
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  Small Scale Water Providers in Paraguay

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  While many countries in Latin America are experimenting with the new concept of private provision of water supply service, Paraguay has for some time been the ground for another type of experiment: the free entry mode of service provision.
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  The Potential and the Limits of Private Water Providers: Independent Sellers in Francophone Africa

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  Suggests that the small scale operator may enjoy an advantage when it comes to providing services in smaller settlements where the national operator with a single service delivery system rarely breaks even.
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  Do Cross-Subsidies Help the Poor to Benefit from Water and Wastewater Services?: Lessons from Guayaquil, Ecuador

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999

  Tariff policy in many countries is often driven by the understandable desire to assure that the poor have access to reliable water and sewerage services which leads, in turn to a system of cross-subsidies. The water utility charges low income groups and residences at below-average rates, but charges industrial and commercial users at above average rates to make up the difference.
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  Formal and Informal Markets for Water: Institutions, Performance, and Constraints

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Water markets—either formal or informal—can be an efficient method for reallocating scarce water supplies. At the same time certain constraints can raise the transaction costs of trading water. This paper reviews the conditions necessary to establish successful water markets, identifies potential problems, and offers mitigating strategies.

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