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    Privatisation in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Panacea

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    Public enterprise privatisation policies have aroused enormous interest during the past decade. The majority of both developed and developing countries, and more recently the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, have launched ambitious programmes for transferring public sector property to the private sector.
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    State-owned Development Banks in Micro-finance

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1997
    This note seeks to inform policymakers and other government officials about the process of transformation of the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) unit desa (or village banking) system, and identify key factors that led to the birth of a successful micro-finance institution.
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    Towards Islamic banking: a case study of Pilgrims Management & Fund Board, Malaysia

    Institute of Policy Studies, Pakistan, 2000
    What really are the reasons for the lack of progress at the practical level about the application of Islamic Banking? Different people may have different perceptions on the issue. Proponents of the Islamic banking generally attribute it to the lack of will and commitment of the successive governments and of the government machinery at various levels.
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    Banking sector interest rate spread in Kenya

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2000
    This paper examines the causes of the spread between lending and deposit rates which it sees as a key indicator of financial performance and efficiency.
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    Exporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery

    The Corner House, UK, 2000
    Deals with the globalisation of corruption. The article suggests that if corruption is growing throughout the world, it is largely a result of the rapid privatisation (and associated practices of contracting-out and concessions) of public enterprises worldwide.
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    Who owns the media?

    World Bank, 2001
    This article explores who controls the world's media.
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    A crude awakening: The role of the oil and banking industries in Angola's civil war and the plunder of state assets

    Global Witness, 1999
    Discusses the corrupt use of growing oil revenues and challenges the oil industry, lending banks and the national governments involved to change their policies and to adopt a policy of 'full transparency'.Also available as Word and Text documents at: http://www.fatbeehive.com/globalwitness/text/campaigns/oil/reports.html

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