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    Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

    TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002
    This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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    Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

    European Network on Debt and Development, 2002
    Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.
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    Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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    Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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    Distributive impact of privitization and the regulation of utilities in Chile

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This paper provides an idea of the effect of privatisation on efficiency and attempts to understand whether those who oppose further privatisation can justify their position on the grounds that privatisation negatively impacts on the poor.Conclusionsregulatory problems in Chile did not offset the gains achieved through cost reductions and efficiency.
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    What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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    CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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    FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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    Small Enterprise Development and the 'Dutch Disease' in a Small Economy: The Case of Brunei

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1998
    Following hydrocarbon (oil/gas) discoveries and price rises, a number of small developing economies which had been relatively poor found themselves to be relatively wealthy. However, the existence of significant quantities of minerals with strong export potential has generally been seen as a mixed blessing for national development.
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    Banking on the poor? : branch placement and non-farm rural development in Bangladesh

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    In Bangladesh, Grameen Bank puts banks in areas where gains from switching from farming to nonfarm enterprises favor the poor. Other banks put more weight on potential gains to the nonpoor. Ravallion and Wodon assess whether the placement of bank branches in Bangladesh responds to unexploited potential for nonfarm rural development.

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