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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This 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 benefits
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  Another PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).
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  Glimpses of an alternative: the possibility of public ownership in the World Bank's latest PSD strategy paper

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This paper discusses the latest draft of the World Bank Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD - December 2001).
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  Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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  Privatization in Egypt and Tunisia: liberal outcomes and/or liberal policies?

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This paper examines the different levels of success in liberalisation experienced by two countries with very similar economic histories: Egypt and Tunisia. It asks why one of these countries moved forward and the other lagged behind. Could the factors of success in Tunisia play a similar role in Egypt and vice versa?
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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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  The social impact of privatization and the regulation of utilities in Peru

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This article tries to assess the consumption and welfare impacts of privatization on Peruvian urban households.
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  Reconstruction from war in Africa: communities, entrepreneurs, and states

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This article looks at the move from conflict to reconstruction and then onto sustainable development, within an African context.It finds that:aid donors, NGOs, and international business can do much to help or hinder this processunless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth will be poverty reducingcommunities cannot prosper unless
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  Distributive impact of privitization and the regulation of utilities in Chile

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper provides an idea of the effect of privatisation on efficiency and attempts to understand whether those who oppose further privatisation can justify their position on the grounds that privatisation negatively impacts on the poor.Conclusionsregulatory problems in Chile did not offset the gains achieved through cost reductions and efficiency.

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