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  Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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  World Bank and India's economic development

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  In its 50-year partnership with India, the Bank concentrated on the growth objective through subscribing to the trickle down theory. Over the past five years, it has posited its initiatives on a plain of poverty alleviation, to which results are yet to be seen.
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  Poverty-eradicating Job Creation

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 1999

  This paper presents a macroeconomic framework underlying many policy proposals, by churches, labour, and non-governmental organisations.
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  Corruption, perception and Foreign Direct Investment: counting the cost of graft

  Institute for Security Studies, 2002

  This paper looks at recent initiatives taken at an international level to combat corruption, and more importantly the supply side of corruption, ie bribery. These initiatives, although seeking to punish bribe-payers, also place an additional ‘risk’ on doing business in countries, which are perceived as highly corrupt.
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  Foreign direct investment in Southern Africa: determinants, characteristics and implications for economic growth and poverty alleviation

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper presents the findings of a study analyzing the major factors determining the form and volume of private foreign direct investment in Southern Africa. This study aims to ascertain (i) what are the primary motivations for investment in Southern Africa and (ii) whether the form of new foreign investment influences its developmental effects.
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  Improving global economic governance

  South Centre, 2002

  Global economic governance refers to the institutions, norms, practises and decision-making processes from which rules, guidelines, standards, and codes arise in order to manage the global economy.
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  Making the most of the private sector

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  It is now well recognised that the private sector plays a major role in the delivery of health services in low and middle income countries and that even the poor are paying large amounts of money to access such services. In many countries the growth of the private sector has been extremely rapid and largely unregulated.
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  What did structural adjustment adjust?: the association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This paper analyses some particular characteristics of IMF and World Bank adjustment loans and attempts to explain the relationship between adjustment policies and growth in developing countries. In particular, this study considers the repetition of adjustment loans to the same country not effective at generating the growth necessary to service the debt.
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  Social protection in Asia and the Pacific

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  The publication is a practical and comprehensive manual for policy-makers and professionals in the field.
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  The economics of public and private roles in health care: insights from institutional economics and organizational theory

  World Bank, 2001

  Advances in health during the past few decades have been impressive. The increase in life expectancy and the decrease in fertility throughout the world have been greater in the past 40 years than during the previous 4,000 years.

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