http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2149462,00.html

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Tanzania was glad to secure the services of a British-led consortium
to run the newly privatised water system in its capital Dar es Salaam.
But then the price of water started to rise ... Xan Rice reports
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Leading the privatisation push was the World Bank. Britain, which
pumps in more aid to Tanzania - £100m this year - than it does to any
other sub-Saharan country, provided the background music. The
Department for International Development gave a £444,000 contract to
Adam Smith International, a British free-market consultancy, mainly to
do public-relations work for the project. As part of this, the
consultancy produced what was described as the world's first
privatisation pop song. It was performed by Captain John Komba, the
country's best-known gospel singer, who is now an MP.
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"It is clear that City Water performed badly." The unpublished World
Bank report said, "The primary assumption on the part of almost all
involved, particularly on the donor side, was that it would be very
hard, if not impossible, for the private operator to perform worse
than Dawasa. But that is what happened."
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And some of the local staff were unhappy. Mathias Mulagwanda, an
engineer who was among 1,300 employees taken on by City Water, says:
"The chiefs were all whites. There was a distance between them and us,
and they did not want to listen to our ideas. There was no teamwork
and we did not really know what was going on."

[The "CHIEFS"??]


-raghu.

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