Agence multilatérale de garantie des investissements (AMGI)

Auteur: Jessica Budds, doctoral candidate in Geography & Environment at Univ. of Oxford, & Gordon McGranahan, director of Human Settlements Programme, Intl. Institute for Environment & Development, in Environment & Urbanization journal

This paper has two principal aims: first, to unravel some of the arguments mobilized in the controversial privatization debate, and second, to review the scale and nature of private sector provision of water and sanitation in Africa, Asia and Latin...

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• Egalement dans: Rich countries should stop funding water privatisation by World Bank, urge over 100 NGOs worldwide
• Entreprises concernées: Aguas Argentinas (now Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos - AySA) Ayala Biwater Grupo Agbar (Aguas de Barcelona) Manila Water (joint venture Ayala, Mitsubishi Corp. & United Utilities) Mitsubishi Group RWE SAUR (part of Bouygues) Suez Thames Water (part of RWE) United Utilities Veolia (formerly Vivendi Environnement)

Auteur: UN Wire

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, a World Bank Group member, will provide $65 million in investment insurance to a consortium of four Mauritian companies and to the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd. to help...

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