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    Private sector development study: Angola

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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    Money talks: how aid conditions continue to drive utility privatisation in poor countries

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This study of the World Bank and IMF’s own reports finds that the continued use of loan conditionality to impose the privatisation of water, electricity and other utility services on developing countries occurs in a number of ways:in some cases utility privatisation is explicitly included in key documents outlining loan conditions, at times ignoring outcomes of the PRSP consultations and
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    Private sector involvement in policy making in a poverty-stricken liberal democracy

    Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2003
    Looks at the attempt by Zambia to operate a system of advocacy pluralism, involving the private sector and civil society in policy setting.
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    ‘Pro-poor’ water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Private sector involvement in water management is dubbed ‘pro-poor’ by donors and lenders. Is there evidence to support claims that concessions designed to generate international investment in financially- strapped public water companies are increasing the speed of network expansion to poor communities? What lessons can be learnt from concessions that have failed?
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    Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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    Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to finance dam projects. New research warns that those displaced by dams could suffer even more as a result.
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    Study on private sector development in Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Mozambique and the priorities for donor intervention. The report reviews that there is a “big project bias” in Mozambique, therefore it is realistic to suggest that the potential for Norwegian investments in Mozambique would be participation by the bigger Norwegian companies in the large-scale projects within the energy and minerals sector.
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    Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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    Study on private sector development in Zambia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Zambia and priorities for donor intervention.Priorities identified for future donor investment include: Specific support to the road and electrification sector: particularly in locations with a potential for tourism, agriculture and other non-mining industries The SME sector and informal sector Support to the financial sector and business developm
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    Study on private sector development in Bangladesh

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Bangladesh and the priorities for donor intervention. It suggests that the donor community can assist through ensuring an enabling environment nationally and internationally, credit and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises through private sector associations etc.

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