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  Small change for a high price: conditional debt relief in Mali

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2007

  In the last three years, Mali’s debt stock has been reduced significantly as a result of the country’s participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and later on the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
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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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  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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  Profiting from poverty: privatisation consultants, DFID and public services

  War on Want, 2004

  This paper analyses, for the first time, the role of privatisation consultants in developing countries.
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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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  Models of success. Are health sector reforms delivering the goods in Venezuela?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  After economic crisis hit Venezuela in the l980s public health deteriorated sharply. At the same time, economic reform programmes required a change in the roles and capacity of government administration.
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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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  Do the new uniforms fit? The state's changing role in healthcare provision in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How and why is the role of government in health service provision changing? This question and the problems of change are being examined by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers in the case of Ghana. Their work forms one of several country case studies on the health sector undertaken as part of a wider research programme on the Role of Government in Adjusting Economies.
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  Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.