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    Best of both worlds? Public and private sector care for people with diabetes in Trinidad

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Private healthcare is increasingly important in middle-income countries. In Trinidad and Tobago the private sector may account for more than a third of total health expenditure. Is patients’ use of private sector care influenced by their health status? Do socio-economic factors act as barriers to access to private care?
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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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    Accident waiting to happen? The Thai banking crisis of 1997

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The Bank of Thailand was stunned by the severity of the crisis which overwhelmed Asia in the summer of 1997. Why was a long- established and well-respected central bank so unable to cope? To what extent was financial liberalisation to blame? What will the consequences of the measures taken by the Bank of Thailand to rebuild confidence, be?
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    Women, reproductive health and the private sector in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the biggest health problems for women? Is the current emphasis on reproductive health correct? Where do women go for healthcare? Researchers from the Indian Institute of Management and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigated women’s health in Karnataka State, India.
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    Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?
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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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    A shake up for African banks: the effect of liberalisation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The move to liberalise African banking is gaining momentum. Do African banks have reasons to fear the consequences of liberalisation or does it give them opportunities to restructure and compete with international banks in African-wide or regional markets?
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    Privatisation in Africa: promoting local enterprise?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Privatisation is all the rage in Africa as state enterprises are wound up across the continent. Has privatisation eroded national control of African economies, as critics feared? Or could it provide opportunities for indigenisation – a measure aimed at increasing the ownership and control of assets by local enterprises and individuals?
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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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    Cleaner banking: is it possible?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    When unsound southern banks go bust the impact can be devastating. The costs are usually borne by depositors and taxpayers - rarely by those who own and manage errant banks. How can more prudential monitoring and earlier intervention improve bank regulation? Would US-style regulatory mechanisms work in the south?

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