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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 acknowledgeDocumentAnarchy and invention: how does Somalia’s private sector cope without government?
Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2004This document explores how the Somali private sector can function without any government in place.DocumentUses of privatization proceeds: Jordan’s case (1995-2004)
Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan, 2004One of the most important areas in which there have been prolonged and persistent debate and discussion after the Privatisation Program started in Jordan was precisely around the issue of utilsation of privatisation proceeds. Privatisation proceeds are major sums of money, generated from selling public assets, which were yielding flows of income to the Treasury.DocumentToilet 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.DocumentDogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries
War on Want, 2004The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.DocumentWater for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality
Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.DocumentCommunication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.DocumentStrengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development: investment climate and infrastructure development
Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2004This note provides a brief overview of recent findings on the quality of the investment climate and policy effort, as well as on infrastructure service provision, which are informing the World Bank.Recent findings include:A good part of practical pro-poor growth policies is about bringing a better investment climate to areas where poor people liveSmaller and informal firms and farmsPages