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Privatization and enterprise performance in Nigeria: case study of some privatized enterprises
African Economic Research Consortium, 2008This study examinesthe post-privatisation performance of some formerly state-owned enterprises in Nigeria. Comparing data from five years before and five years after privatisation, the study finds significant increases in the following indicators:DocumentPrivatisation of water: public-private partnerships: do they deliver to the poor?
Development Fund, Norway, 2006This document discusses three main themes: how privatisation has been promoted by international financial institutions and other donors as a strategy for financing water services; the effects on the poor of different kinds of privatisation of water services in developing countries; and policy recommendations for the provision of water to the poor.The report shows that the World Bank acknowledgeDocumentToilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This 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.DocumentNature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity
Friends of the Earth International, 2005This 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.DocumentTurning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ActionAid International, 2004This 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.DocumentInstitutions, politics, and contracts: the privatization attempt of the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru
Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002Following severe economic crisis in 1989-90, Peru embarked on a programme of market-oriented structural reforms which included a proposal to privatise the operation of Lima’s water and sewerage utility.Document‘Pro-poor’ water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Private sector involvement in water management is dubbed ‘pro-poor’ by donors and lenders. Is there evidence to support claims that concessions designed to generate international investment in financially- strapped public water companies are increasing the speed of network expansion to poor communities? What lessons can be learnt from concessions that have failed?DocumentPrivate sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP?DocumentWater privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka
South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.DocumentWater privatisation in Latin America, 2002
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.Pages
