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World Development Movement

http://www.wdm.org.uk/

Founded in 1970, World Development Movement (WDM) is a movement of individual supporters, campaigners and local groups. It lobbies decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor, it researches and promotes positive alternatives and it works alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.

Their main campaigns area currently focus on Trade, Aid and Debt, with a particular look at the consequences of privatisation of public services in developing countries. WDM produces a range of campaign resources to inform the public and lobby decision-makers and produces the quarterly magazine WDM in Action.

Address : 66 Offley Road
London, SW9 0LS
Phone : 0207 820 4900
Fax : 0207 820 4949
Contact : wdm@wdm.org.uk
Website : http://www.wdm.org.uk


Espejismo en el agua : el fracaso de las inversiones privadas en servicios de agua de países en desarrollo

> Marzo de 2006, 50 p. (pdf)

Este informe demuestra ampliamente que la privatización del agua ni siquiera ha proporcionado las inversiones prometidas, ni qué decir que fueran suficientes para dar acceso a los servicios a comunidades en la magnitud necesaria para abordar la crisis mundial del agua. Talvez por primera vez, este informe documenta lo escasas que son las nuevas conexiones a servicios debidas a inversiones del sector privado en las regiones del mundo donde la necesidad es máxima. En el África subsahariana, Asia (...) leer

Fecha de publicación : 22 de marzo de 2007

Dirty aid, dirty water

For over a decade governments and donors have forced water privatisation on developing countries as a condition of debt relief and aid. This ideological faith in the free market combined with a lack of understanding about alternative solutions has been a disaster for the world’s poor. From Bolivia to Argentina, the Philippines to Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania to Guinea, case after case shows that privatisation does not work. Critically, private companies have not significantly boosted the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 15 March 2007

Dirty aid, dirty water : the UK government’s push to privatise water and sanitation in poor countries

> February 2005, 73 p, (pdf)

As part of their campaign, Dirty aid, dirty water, World Development Movement exposes the actions of the UK government to privatise water and sanitation in poor countries. This report gives an introduction to privatisation of water, the reasons for its failure, the UK’s involvement in private ventures and its use of consultants which favour privatisation. Finally the report proposes workable alternatives in the context of the Millenium Development Goals. Read the whole report on Dirty aid, (...) read

date of on-line publication : 8 November 2005

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