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    Reforming infrastructure: privatization, regulation and competition

    Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2004
    This report draws lessons from the World Bank's experience with the reform and privatisation of infrastructure utilities over the last twenty years. The Bank has based policy around the privatisation of utility monopolies, arguing that if these industries are properly restructured, substantial competition can emerge in many activities.
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    Who’s taking risks?: how the World Bank pushes private infrastructure and finds resistance in some surprising places

    Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2004
    This paper looks at efforts of the World Bank to increase private investment in infrastructure projects in the risky markets in developing countries through the promotion of a range of new instruments called fiscal supports. These guarantees and subsidies help to ensure corporate profitability can pose serious risks and costs for taxpayers.
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    Women and the environment

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004
    This report outlines some of the major issues related to women and the environment.
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    Agricultural diversification for the poor: guidelines for practitioners

    World Bank, 2004
    This study outlines practical ways for implementing diversification activities. The emphasis is on how the diversification process can be made pro-poor with minimum risk involved.
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    Economic growth of Russian regions

    Center for Fiscal Policy, Consulting Group, Russian Federation, 2003
    [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only] This paper presents an analysis of growth patterns and potentiality of the Russian economy to double GRP in ten years. The author uses statistical techniques to analyze growth in Russian regions and compare growth with other factors.
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    Agricultural biotechnology for developing countries: results of an electronic forum

    Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2001
    This document is a report of the first six conferences of the FAO’s Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, ruuning between March 2000 and May 2001. The first four conferences dealt with the appropriateness of currently available biotechnologies in the crop, forestry, livestock and fishery sectors, respectively for food and agriculture in developing countries.
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    Private sector development study: Angola

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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    Fighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.
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    Money talks: how aid conditions continue to drive utility privatisation in poor countries

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This study of the World Bank and IMF’s own reports finds that the continued use of loan conditionality to impose the privatisation of water, electricity and other utility services on developing countries occurs in a number of ways:in some cases utility privatisation is explicitly included in key documents outlining loan conditions, at times ignoring outcomes of the PRSP consultations and
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    Water and development: experiences of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the water sector

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003
    The connections and interactions between water and health, hygiene, nutrition, methods of cultivation, the protection and sustainable use of natural resources, productivity, income generation, local governance, economic policy, legal systems and participation in political decisions are of central concern in sustainable development.This document provides background information on SDCs engagement

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