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Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management.DocumentThe Lesotho Highland Water Development Project: what went wrong? (or, rather: what went right? For whom?)
International Rivers Network, 2000This article takes a critical look at the discussion regarding 19 corporate and individuals accused of bribing a top official in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in order to gain project contracts.The aim of the article is to examine how the actions (and inactions) of the public institutions involved in this project may have aided and abetted bribe giving, regardless of whether or not any brDocumentPrivatisation of electricity distribution: some economic, social and political perspectives
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2001This 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.DocumentHuman resources in agricultural and rural development
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.DocumentChild Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.DocumentOf saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.DocumentBetter Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic.Pages