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  Liquidity, banks, and markets : effects of financial development on banks and the maturity of financial claims

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The amount of liquidity that banks offer depends on the degree of direct participation in financial markets --- that is, on the liquidity of financial markets. Conversely, banks influence the amount of liquidity offered by financial markets.Financial markets and financial institutions compete to provide investors with liquidity.
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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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  Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing th
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  Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999

  Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company.
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  Exporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery

  The Corner House, UK, 2000

  Deals with the globalisation of corruption. The article suggests that if corruption is growing throughout the world, it is largely a result of the rapid privatisation (and associated practices of contracting-out and concessions) of public enterprises worldwide.