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  Licensing banks: pitfalls and opportunities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Between 1995 and 1998 nine major locally- owned banks went bust in Zambia, repeating a pattern found in many developing countries. How can southern bank regulators be prudent, yet foster a climate in which local banks can compete with the foreign big boys? Can international best practice for licensing be adapted to the needs of the south?
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  Guaranteeing credit for SMEs: lessons from Malaysia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The potential for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to power growth in transitional and developing countries is widely recognised. Why then, are bank and SME relationships problematic? How can governments help SMEs to access credit? How much can they afford to risk guaranteeing loan schemes?
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  Banking for all: extending credit access in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Entrepreneurship is thriving in Africa. Throughout the continent poor people start up and run tiny businesses – micro-enterprises - in the unregulated informal sector. Why are aid agencies, governments and financial institutions not improving their access to credit? Why isn’t more being done to give small and medium enterprises (SMEs) increased access to credit facilities?
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  Power to choose: is pro-poor privatisation possible?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can private sector contracts be designed to serve the needs of the poor more effectively? Should quality of service be set at costly western standards? Or can large and small water providers compete to supply a range of services at prices that reflect consumer willingness and ability to pay?
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  Aid or Trade? Managing fair trade commercial and NGO partnerships

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Partnerships between commercial and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are creating new challenges for development practice in seeking to promote 'fair trade' between producers in the South and western consumers. Joint ventures that try to combine commercial and development objectives produce distinct problems, however.
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  Do the new uniforms fit? The state's changing role in healthcare provision in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How and why is the role of government in health service provision changing? This question and the problems of change are being examined by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers in the case of Ghana. Their work forms one of several country case studies on the health sector undertaken as part of a wider research programme on the Role of Government in Adjusting Economies.
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  An unlikely couple? Linking private and public sectors in TB control

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Private practitioners treat up to half of tuberculosis (TB) patients in urban Nepal, even though free treatment is available in the public sector. Quality of TB care by private practitioners is inconsistent. What is the best way to improve TB control through the private sector?
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  The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999

  This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
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  Privatisation and poverty: the distributional impact of utility privatisation

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This 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.
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  Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.

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