Management

ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

In 1998, most officials in El Salvador recognize that the water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for managing that infrastructure are in disrepair. Without reforms, the country would be unable to provide water and sewerage...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under-capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students. Frustrated by the persistent perils in neighborhoods in which such beneficiaries of their...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Corporate Philanthropy (D)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Foundations (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Individual Donors (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Landscape of Philanthropy in the United States (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Dealing with a Changing Environment (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...

Dealing with a Changing Environment (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...