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    Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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    Blurring the boundaries? Microfinance vs formal banking

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Microfinance practitioners want to see special regulations allowing microfinance institutions to provide a range of financial services without attracting formal banking sector regulations - especially minimum capital requirements. If adopted, this approach will stretch the limited financial resources and technical capacity of many central banks in developing countries.
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    Banking reforms in Africa. What has been learnt?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    One of the major objectives of liberalisation is to boost bank lending to the private sector, which is regarded as the engine of economic growth. However, the growth of commercial bank lending to the private sector following financial liberalisation was disappointing in many countries, especially bank lending to small scale borrowers and start-up enterprises.
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    Bumpy road to Basel. Banking regulation: precision v accuracy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Banks play an important role in the economy and need to be regulated. Safe, sound banks and a stable financial system are essential. Without this, the banking system would be unable to perform its basic functions well, such as financing economic development and poverty reduction. Nor would people have the confidence to use banks.
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    A foreign affair? How far does Africa need foreign banks?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Free foreign bank entry is essential to financial liberalisation in Africa. It is also integral to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) protocols on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) embraced by most African governments. What are the pros and cons of free foreign bank entry? What are the implications for local domestic banks?
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    Providing water to the poor: Assessing private sector participation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can private sector participation (PSP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services (WSS) meet essential social and environmental needs?
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    In two minds - should the private sector provide long-term psychiatric care?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the best way to care for people with chronic mental disorders? Do public or private institutions provide the most cost- effective services? Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand undertook a cost- quality analysis of six South African psychiatric institutions.
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    Banking on good health? Assessing the World Bank’s global health strategy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The World Bank has become increasingly involved in health policy since the 1970s and now plays a prominent international role. What are the implications of this for health systems in developing countries? A series of articles in the British Medical Journal explore the views of national and international policy-makers on the Bank's role in health issues.
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    Getting municipalities ready to work with the private sector: experience from Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the linkages between municipal management, poverty reduction and the private sector? Can service delivery be simultaneously pro-poor and for- profit? How can municipalities in developing countries learn to work with the private sector to improve water and sanitation services?
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    The global pensions debate: any alternative to privatisation?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Should social protection to the elderly in developing countries be higher on the development agenda? What is the relation between pension systems and socio-economic development? Is private pension provision preferable to state management? How can Southern governments and donors work to build fiscally sound pension systems?

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