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    Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
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    Microfinance in post-conflict situations: a case study of Mozambique

    Centre for Development Studies, University College, Dublin, 2003
    This paper discusses the role of microfinance in facilitating effective development processes in environments coping with the impacts of war. It specifically asks whether it is possible to establish sustainable microfinance services in post-conflict situations (referred to here as post-conflict microfinance (PCM)).
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    Should the IMF cease long term lending?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As a long-term lender to low-income countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also tackles problems of poverty and growth. Should the IMF withdraw from development finance leaving it up to donors and the World Bank, as critics suggest? Is it appropriate for the Fund to return to its traditional role?
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    Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Urban water management in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Reforms in Zimbabwe's urban water supply are driven by drought, financial shortage, and a growing awareness that water is a scarce commodity with economic value. The old system of water management based on direct governmental administration and professional control was effective, but new approaches are now designed to improve efficiency, equity, and sustainability.
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    Models of success. Are health sector reforms delivering the goods in Venezuela?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    After economic crisis hit Venezuela in the l980s public health deteriorated sharply. At the same time, economic reform programmes required a change in the roles and capacity of government administration.
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    What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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    Courting capital. What it will take to boost foreign investors' confidence in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Without investment by foreign companies (foreign direct investment, or FDI) there is a real danger that countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will fail to become internationally competitive, and will remain at the margins of the world economy. Only a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been successful in attracting foreign investment.
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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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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    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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