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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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  Another PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).
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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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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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  The social impact of privatization and the regulation of utilities in Peru

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This article tries to assess the consumption and welfare impacts of privatization on Peruvian urban households.
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  Getting the private sector involved in water: what to do in the poorest of countries (WB)

  Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999
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  Policy - based finance, financial regulation, and financial sector development in Japan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Is Japan a good model for developing countries? Certainly macroeconomic stability, good information systems, effective monitoring, and financial discipline are essential for smooth functioning, efficient financial systems.
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  Universal banking and the financing of industrial development

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Developing countries designing financial systems should take a lesson from U.S.
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  Bank regulation : the case of the missing model

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The success of financial reform and the stability of financial systems depend partly on a regulatory framework that rewards prudent risk taking and is attuned to both institutions and the structure of the economy.
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  Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state.Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations has hampered development of the private sector in many developing countries.

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