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    Conditionality-driven privatisation of utilities: in the interests of the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does the privatisation of water and electricity relieve or exacerbate the quality of life of those on very low incomes? Are the pro-privatisers in the international financial institutions examining the links between privatisation and poverty? Does privatisation have a place in a poverty reduction strategy?
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    Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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    Providing water to the poor: Assessing private sector participation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can private sector participation (PSP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services (WSS) meet essential social and environmental needs?
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    Getting municipalities ready to work with the private sector: experience from Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the linkages between municipal management, poverty reduction and the private sector? Can service delivery be simultaneously pro-poor and for- profit? How can municipalities in developing countries learn to work with the private sector to improve water and sanitation services?
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    Private sector participation in water and sanitation: promises and pitfalls

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The perception that governments cannot efficiently provide water and sanitation (WSS) services has led to greatly increased private sector participation (PSP). Are regulatory regimes ensuring that service providers do not exploit their customers? Can PSPs save water and make it safer? Are the poor getting basic services?
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    Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?
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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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    The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

    Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999
    This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
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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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