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  Study on private sector development in Malawi

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002

  Review of the private sector in Malawi and the priorities for donor intervention.
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  Towards a ten year review: synthesis report on implementation of South African government programmes

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This review sets out to assess the extent to which the new democratic dispensation since 1994 has redirected the purpose and content of government policy and seeks to describe the impact of these changes on South African society.
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  Water privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.
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  The commodification of water: leaving us high and dry?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Who owns water? Should anybody own it? Is water a human need or a human right? As the world’s water crisis worsens, can private sector management come to the rescue – or is fresh water in danger of becoming big business and a preserve of the wealthy?
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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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  Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
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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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