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Financing water for the world: an alternative to guaranteed profits
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2003This paper assesses the initiatives of the Global Water Partnership and World Water Council, and the European Union to address the question of financing the development and extension of water supply and sanitation in developing countries.The paper argues that both of them give a central role to using donor aid to leverage further funds for investment from private sector water companies.DocumentCapital markets financing for developing-country infrastructure projects
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003This study is the result of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002.DocumentWater privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002A 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.DocumentForeign direct investment in Southern Africa: determinants, characteristics and implications for economic growth and poverty alleviation
Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002This 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.DocumentThe economics of public and private roles in health care: insights from institutional economics and organizational theory
World Bank, 2001Advances 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.DocumentPrivate sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?
European Network on Debt and Development, 2002Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.DocumentGlobalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?
Save the Children Fund, 2002This 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 benefitsDocumentThe World Bank and the environment in the Caspian: a case study of the Kolkheti National Park
BankWatch, 2002This report focuses on the construction of an oil terminal and related infrastructure inside one of Georgia’s national parks. The World Bank has a positive environmental objective in helping to finance the establishment of the Kolkheti National Park but this, the authors claim, is being undermined by the private development of the Kulevi Oil Terminal.DocumentIncreasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".DocumentAnother PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).Pages
