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  Rethinking government's role in urban infrastructure

  1999

  By 2020, it is estimated that more than half of the population of developing countries would be urban-based. The demographic shift implies an increased demand for urban transport, water and wastewater services, basic education and health, sanitation and waste disposal facilities. Clearly, urban growth has further increased the demand for basic infrastructure.
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  Topic Guide: Developing regional infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Unblocking constraints and enabling effective policy intervention

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  Developing infrastructure enables structural transformation, which accelerates economic growth and reduces poverty. This is of particular importance in South Asia and Africa, where the lack of regional infrastructure is constraining economic growth.
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  Linking ICT with climate action for a low-carbon economy

  The Broadband Commission, 2012

  Governments can accelerate transformation to a low carbon economy by promoting and integrating ICT within climate change policy. This view is presented by the Broadband Commission in this report based on interviews and supporting material from more than twenty leaders and experts in the field.
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  Politics, institutions and participation in water governance

  Water Research Group, University of Bradford, 2006

  This paper presents discussion from the third seminar, held June 2005, focused on challenging the consensus of approaches around politics, institutions and participation in water governance. It presents this in relation to three dimensions of consensus in which issues of politics, institutions and participation were central, and critically affect water security:
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  PPP, infrastructure, and decentralization: perspectives for Senegal

  Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, Inc, 2006

  Since the 1990s, African countries have adopted public-private partnerships (PPPs) to mobilize private sector resources for public projects. According to the World Bank, the private sector contributed $969 billion to public infrastructure financing from 1990 to 2005.
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  Privatization revisited: lessons from private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in developing countries

  Asian Development Bank, 2008

  This paper examines the experiences of private sector participation (PSP) in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector. The paper argues that publicly owned water utilities have not always been successful in both developed and developing economies. However, non-market failures in supplying water are much more severe in developing economies.
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  Outsourcing revenue collection to private agents: experience from local authorities in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009

  Many local government authorities in Tanzania have reformed their tax collection systems in recent years in order to increase their revenue. This paper examines how systems of privatized tax collection performed with respect to revenue generation, administration and accountability, based on evidence from urban and rural councils in Tanzania.
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  Swings and roundabouts: a narrative on water policy development in Sri Lanka

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This paper narrates the story of a set of Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects in the 1990s which were designed to streamline water resource management arrangements in Sri Lanka.
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  Putting the cart before the horse? privatisation and economic reform in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006

  As part of the ongoing economic restructuring, privatisation process has gained increased momentum in Afghanistan. Fifty-four fully state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been slated for privatisation by the end of 2009.
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  World Trade Organization accession: challenges and opportunities for railways in the People's Republic of China

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  People’s Republic of China (PRC) railways have played a very important role in developing the national economy and in the country’s industrial revolution. However, with increasing market access under WTO, PRC railways face competitive challenges in open access, pricing, reliability, service quality, and have corresponding opportunities to develop cooperative relationships.

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