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  What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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  Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  Pastoralists, paravets and privatisation: experiences in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996

  The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID, visited Sanaag region in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland.
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  Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv
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  Privatisation of electricity distribution: some economic, social and political perspectives

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2001

  This article discusses the increasing privatisation of electricity distribution. This paper reviews international progress in privatisation and considers some of the realities of such a policy.The article concludes that:privatisation is portrayed as means of improving efficiency and bringing in funds for investment.
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  The California electricity crisis: overview and international lessons

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2001

  This article discusses the disasterous effect of the deregulation of the Californian electricity system and the crisis this has caused.The article concludes that:many in California have come to the conclusion that liberalisation does not work.
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  Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000

  Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficult and prolonged despite high levels of foreign aid.
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  Biotechnology and the changing public / private sector balance: developments in rice and cocoa

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops: rice and cocoa.

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