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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure

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  Mining in Peru: unearthing the truth

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This paper assess the consequences of a number of reforms in the 1990s aimed at attracting foreign investment in the mineral sector.
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  Global Governance Initiative Annual Report 2005

  World Economic Forum, 2005

  The second annual report of the Global Governance Initiative provides comprehensive analysis of the world's progress towards realising the UN's Millennium Declaration Goals. It measure progress in the following 5 areas: Peace and security, poverty and hunger, education, HIV/AIDS, environment, human rights and .
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  Socially targeted investment: strategy paper

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues that low investment, and in particular a lack of investment targeted towards the country’s developmental needs, is a key reason for the persistence of poverty and inequality in South Africa.
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  Nature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women.
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  Unleashing entrepreneurship: making business work for the poor

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This paper reflects the meetings of the UN's Commission on the Private Sector and Development. The authors explore how the private sector can help reduce widespread poverty; the Commission believes that the primary responsibility for achieving growth and equitable development lies with developing countries.
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  Uzbekistan energy sector: issues, analysis, and an agenda for reform

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyses the energy sector in Uzbekistan and presents a detailed proposal for its reform. It argues that Uzbekistan’s considerable endowment with primary energy resources has led to a subsidisation of energy that has brought about many weaknesses.
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  The regulation of private sector participation in urban water supply and sanitation: realising social and environmental objectives in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1999

  This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the significant increase in private sector participation (PSP) in the urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in recent years, and examines some of the mechanisms available to the authorities responsible for the regulation of the sector.The report argues that PSP in urban WSS is likely to continue to increase in importance in deve
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  The great water robbery

  One World Action, 2002

  Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.
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  Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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  Eskom: corporate powerhouse or green company?

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Eskom will be South Africa's number one Corporate Environmentalism Exhibit, during the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, despite having contravened two of the Global Compact principles.The author details the negative behaviour of Eskom.

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