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    The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland was a pioneer in bank and enterprise restructuring.
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    Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state.Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations has hampered development of the private sector in many developing countries.
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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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    Domestic Causes of Currency Crises: Policy Lessons for Crisis Avoidance

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998
    Focusses on those countries with excellent macroeconomic fundamentals that recently turned from financial-market darlings to financial-crisis victims within months: Chile 1982, Mexico 1994 and now the five Asian victims.
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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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    Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

    Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000
    Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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    Financing corruption and repression: the case of Kenya and the IFIs

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    This article attempts to show that in Kenya the IMF’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) is less a strategy for poverty reduction and civil society participation; more a strategy for providing security and guarantees for foreign investorsThe article indicates that:far from challenging the rule of Daniel Arap Moi, international creditors, through the IMF and World Bank, have helped to pr
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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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