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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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    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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    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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    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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    Financing water for the world: an alternative to guaranteed profits

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2003
    This paper assesses the initiatives of the Global Water Partnership and World Water Council, and the European Union to address the question of financing the development and extension of water supply and sanitation in developing countries.The paper argues that both of them give a central role to using donor aid to leverage further funds for investment from private sector water companies.
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    World Bank involvement in the privatisation of public pension systems in developing and transition countries

    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2003
    Over the last decade, more than a dozen countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe have partially or completely replaced public pay-as-you-go pension systems with funded systems managed by private financial institutions. The World Bank has been a major catalyst for this shift, providing loans and technical support.
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    Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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    Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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    Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
    This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo

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