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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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  Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.
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  Financing water for the world: an alternative to guaranteed profits

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2003

  This 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.
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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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  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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  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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  Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Looks 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.

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