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  Assessment of investment climate in Georgia

  Local Government Information Center, Georgia, 2003

  There is no need to explain the importance of investment for national economies. Investment, along with consumption and savings, plays a central role in a country’s economic performance. However, Georgia lacks the necessary investment resources required for development, and so, foreign investments are considered crucial for economic development and growth.
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  Explaining growth country report: Romania (1990-2000)

  Initiatives for Democracy in Eastern Europe, Bucharest, Romania, 2001

  This paper attempts to explain the development and growth of the Romanian economy both during the transitional period following the fall of the communist regime in 1989 and within a broader historical context.The post-war period is first analysed, followed by the intensive development of the later communist period, in order to identify the main inherited features that had to be taken into accou
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Flushing away arid theories: a reality check on the water debate

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is there too much theorizing about water? Does regarding water as an economic good obscure its cultural, social and symbolic dimensions? Can market forces protect the right of the poor to water?
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  Financing housing for the urban poor: opportunities for civil society-state-private sector collaboration

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The value of real estate held, but not legally owned, by the poor in the developing world, is at least US$9.3 trillion. How can this massive asset base be most effectively valued, applied and leveraged? How can community housing finance initiatives be connected to formal financial mechanisms?
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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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  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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  Pipe dreams. Does privatised water offer poor urban neighbourhoods a better supply?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The supply of water to towns and cities in many low-income countries is in crisis One much vaunted solution is for private companies to step in. A University of Birmingham research study examined how water supply is organised in some low income countries. The study report identifies a range of supply strategies, each involving different degrees of private involvement.
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  Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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  New roles, new rules: does private sector participation benefit the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The involvement of the private sector in the provision of water and sanitation services is currently one of the more contentious development debates. The issue provokes heated discussions, from international conferences in The Hague, Bonn and Johannesburg to the city streets of Cochabamba or Manila where governments increasingly rely on the private sector involvement.

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