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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Finance policy, Private sector, Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure

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    Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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    Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

    War on Want, 2004
    The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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    Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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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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    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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    Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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    Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Urban water management in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Reforms in Zimbabwe's urban water supply are driven by drought, financial shortage, and a growing awareness that water is a scarce commodity with economic value. The old system of water management based on direct governmental administration and professional control was effective, but new approaches are now designed to improve efficiency, equity, and sustainability.
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    What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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    Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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    Getting municipalities ready to work with the private sector: experience from Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the linkages between municipal management, poverty reduction and the private sector? Can service delivery be simultaneously pro-poor and for- profit? How can municipalities in developing countries learn to work with the private sector to improve water and sanitation services?

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