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AllAfrica.com
March 5, 2018
They allowed elections but constrained choice, spawning Malawian scholar Thandika Mkandawire's "choice-less democracies". The World Bank explained the poor growth by blaming African governments for either lack of "political will" or populist policies that made them recoil from painful reforms.
The Maravi Post
February 1, 2018
“The council is engaged in talks with some private firms in a bid to privatise solid waste management in the city under the public-private-partnership arrangement,” Kanjunjunju says. He adds that the council is seeking funds from donor partners towards cleaning up the city's major rivers, and streams, whichÃâà...
World Bank Group
October 6, 2017
But in fact, the World Bank Group wasn't new to the situation when the crisis hit. Our advice had been one of the inputs as Turkey's government assessed its options in the 1990s for bringing private players into electric power. While the government's initial model for privatization didn't prove to be crisis-proof,Ãâà...
Power Struggle
September 26, 2017
Nigeria has flirted with energy privatization since the second administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo in the early 2000s. These initiatives were the result of the structural adjustment packages imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as the country tried to right itself after theÃâà...
NewsClick
September 17, 2017
A spate of privatisation measures is reportedly imminent, with the Niti Aayog even suggesting a withdrawal of the government from the sphere of healthcare. ... In Malawi, as in most other third world countries, peasants have traditionally stored their seeds from the previous harvest for their next planting, andÃâà...
Nyasa Times
June 5, 2017
Many companies were shut down while others were sold to capitalists in wanton IMF/ World Bank-sponsored privatization programme which turned out to be a ... It is a well-thought-out suggestion by the Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (Mitc) for Admarc to revert to the commercial side of the market toÃâà...
World Bank Group
April 13, 2017
Last fall, before the IMF-World Bank Group annual meetings, I told the world about our two goals – to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity – and I ..... Many similar privatization efforts were ill conceived – without clear understanding of the roles and obligations of the state and private managers.
ESI Africa
April 6, 2017
Lucio Monari is the Director of Energy and Extractive Global Practice at the World Bank. He will address the CEO Forum at the upcoming African Utility Week in May 2017 on a World Bank study on the “Financial Viability of Electricity Sectors in sub-Saharan Africa”. World Bank We look forward to having youÃâà...
World Bank Group
October 4, 2016
I would argue that this is precisely why the World Bank Group exists. All of us at the World Bank Group feel an enormous responsibility to bring forward, precisely those innovative, creative measures that are needed in our world – at the scale required to meet the challenges. When I joined the Bank in 2012,Ãâà...
AFT
December 31, 1999
Chanting "Bridge to nowhere" and "Education should be free," education advocates and labor leaders rallied April 21 at the World Bank to protest its support for ... "We need to remind the bank what its priorities should be—supporting public education, not privatizing schools that create a few winners at theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
They allowed elections but constrained choice, spawning Malawian scholar Thandika Mkandawire's "choice-less democracies". The World Bank explained the poor growth by blaming African governments for either lack of "political will" or populist policies that made them recoil from painful reforms.
