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'''Adam Smith International''' (ASI) is the consulting arm of the conservative [[think tank]], the [[Adam Smith Institute]].
  
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==People==
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ASI is based in London as well as having a registered office in Delhi and project offices elsewhere. "Our core expertise lies in the fields of government and enterprise/utility reform and in a range of closely related critical support areas, notably policy communications and labour reform," ASI states on its website. [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/who.html]
  
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*[[Roger Usher]] - Managing Director
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==ASI projects and the DfID Drip Feed==
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Projects ASI has worked on include:
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*A project for the [[World Bank]] on "a review of Rwanda’s essential utilities (roads, telecoms, water, gas, electricity, etc.), an assessmentof the current levels of access to these utilities and a series of recommendations for involving the private sector to increase the efficiency of their delivery." [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/case_rw.html]
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*Advising the government of Rwanda on the privatisation of the Pfunda tea factory which was sold to a UK based tea trading company, LAB International. [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/case_rw.html]
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* In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1998, ASI established "a semi-autonomous body known as the Implementation Secretariat (IS)" which "was given the responsibility of reviewing the status of 87 state-owned enterprises and cooperative societies." On its website, ASI states that "to date, more than fifty enterprises and cooperatives have been privatised, disinvested, closed or restructured, creating over US$110m of revenue for the Government of Andhra Pradesh and making fiscal savings of over $300m." [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/case_ap.html]
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*In Ghana since 1999, ASI has been working on a project funded by the UK’s [[Department for International Development]] (DfID) DFID to develop proposals on water supply issues. DfID asked ASI has to help a government regulatory body to develop a pro-poor regulatory social policy that will result in universal access to affordable water.
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*In January 2004, ASI hosted a major international conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with assistance once more from DfID, promoting its preferred free trade policies including canvassing a [[South Asia Free Trade Area]] (SAFTA) and the repeal of the "highly restrictive" Multi-Fibre Arrangement on textiles. [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/case_ba.html]
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*In Iraq, with DfID funding, ASI is working on a project to "assist three vital Iraqi ministries (Finance; Planning & Development Coordination; Municipalities & Public Works) in building emergency capacity for the immediate provision of vital services. ASI is involved in laying the foundations for long-term reform". [http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/case_ir.html]
  
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Roger Usher is ASI’s Managing Director and head of the Government Reform Practice. Roger is a widely respected public sector consultant with extensive experience of designing and implementing government reform programmes in the UK and internationally. He has an outstanding record in project delivery for public sector clients throughout Asia , Africa and the Caribbean and working with International Development Agencies.
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==Think Tank's Water Bank Rankles==
  
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He has also worked on behalf of the UN and its agencies including the FAO and WMO. His work has included budgetary reform, governance and institutional reform of central and local government, and the improvement of public service delivery. He is currently directing ASI’s project to rebuild public sector management capacity in Afghanistan.
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DfID paid ASI "more than £500,000 to provide advice to the Tanzanian government," with over half that amount spent on a video extolling the benefits of water privatisation, the ''Guardian'' reported in May 2005. "Our old industries are dry like crops and privatisation brings the rain," was one statement in the video. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1491600,00.html] 
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"UK ministers have been accused of spending British aid money on a public relations campaign to promote water privatisation in Sierra Leone," reported ''BBC News'' in August 2005. [[Vicky Cann]], of the organization [[World Development Movement]], criticized the British Department for International Development (DfID), saying, "In the poorest country of the world, which is still recovering from a decade long bitter civil war, DfID is not only going to pay international consultants to advise on how to privatise water ... but they will also pay for a propaganda campaign to run alongside it to counter public resistance." [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4197854.stm] The eight firms under consideration for the contract include ASI and [[PricewaterhouseCoopers]], according to the ''Guardian''. In May, a similar water privatization scheme in Tanzania that DfID paid Adam Smith International £273,000 to promote collapsed "after the contractor, [[Biwater]], was asked to leave by the government." [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,15709,1558761,00.html_]
  
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William Morrison - Director
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==Personnel==
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*[[Roger Usher]] - Managing Director
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William Morrison is a Director at ASI, with particular expertise in privatisation and labour adjustment. William has led several large privatisation projects in Eastern Europe and South Asia for ASI since 1995 and continues to lead two major transaction programmes in India . He has advised the Governments of India, Romania, Jordan, Ukraine and Nepal on labour adjustment issues and has designed and managed two major “Social Safety Programs” for more than 30,000 workers in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa since the late 1990s.
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*[[Phil Madden]] - Finance Director
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*[[William Morrison]] - Director
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William has acted as an adviser on labour adjustment for a number of recent World Bank missions - most recently Iraq - and led the ASI team that recently prepared a comprehensive Labour Adjustment Toolkit for the World Bank.
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*[[David Storer]] - Director
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*[[Peter Young]] - International Director
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William Morrison
 
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Peter Young - International Director
 
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Peter Young is International Director and co-founder of Adam Smith International. He has worked on the creation, development and implementation of economic and political reform policies since the early 1980s. His expertise in the reform of state owned enterprises was initially developed in the UK, where he was responsible for the design of privatisation initiatives that were implemented by the UK Government.
 
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Peter used this experience to expand into major technical assistance projects and has advised on economic reform for governments in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, USA and the former Soviet Union. A specialist in restructuring policy and implementation in developing countries, Peter’s key expertise is in the development of SOE reform strategy, including the design and implementation of the institutional framework and building the required political commitment to reform.
 
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Peter Young
 
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Amitabh Shrivastava - International Director
 
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Amitabh Shrivastava, International Director, is responsible for ASI's operations in South Asia / Asia Pacific, and continues to work in projects in Africa. Amitabh is an economist by training and holds a MSc from the London School of Economics. His experience and expertise range from advising governments in implementing complex civil service reforms for improving governance and improving service delivery to the poor, advising in developing PSP / PPPs in infrastructure with a focus on provision of infrastructure to the poor, setting-up and capacity building regulators, labour reforms, social safety nets and privatisations.
 
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Amitabh has advised Governments in over 20 countries in Asia, Africa and East Europe. Recent projects are in India, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Oman, Macedonia and Nepal. Prior to joining ASI in 1999, Amitabh worked with a leading Investment Bank and was based in Mumbai. Amitabh was responsible for setting-up ASI's operations in India.
 
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Peter Young
 
  
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Andrew Ros - Finance Director
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==Contact details==
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Adam Smith International <br>
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Westminster Tower<br>
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3 Albert Embankment<br>
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London SE1 7SP<br>
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Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7735 6660<br>
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Fax: +44 (0) 20 7793 0090<br>
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Email: Mailbox AT AdamSmithInternational.com <br>
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Web:http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/
  
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Andrew Ros, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is currently completing an MBA. He is an expert in Corporate Governance, and is a member of the International Compliance Association. He has held the position of CFO for a mining company in Sierra Leone, and been an Executive Board member for another mineral exploration company operating in Madagascar. Andrew has significant experience working in Europe, the US
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==External links==
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*John Vidal, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1491600,00.html Flagship water privatisation fails in Tanzania: UK firm's contract cancelled amid row over supply]", The Guardian,  May 25, 2005.
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*World Development Movement, "[http://www.wdm.org.uk/news/presrel/current/sierraleone.htm DfID fund PR campaign for failed policy in world's poorest country]", Media Release, August 30, 2005.
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*"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4197854.stm 'UK aid cash funds PR campaign':] UK ministers have been accused of spending British aid money on a public relations campaign to promote water privatisation in Sierra Leone", ''BBC'', August 30, 2005.

Revision as of 22:45, 29 November 2006

Adam Smith International (ASI) is the consulting arm of the conservative think tank, the Adam Smith Institute.

ASI is based in London as well as having a registered office in Delhi and project offices elsewhere. "Our core expertise lies in the fields of government and enterprise/utility reform and in a range of closely related critical support areas, notably policy communications and labour reform," ASI states on its website. [1]

ASI projects and the DfID Drip Feed

Projects ASI has worked on include:

  • A project for the World Bank on "a review of Rwanda’s essential utilities (roads, telecoms, water, gas, electricity, etc.), an assessmentof the current levels of access to these utilities and a series of recommendations for involving the private sector to increase the efficiency of their delivery." [2]
  • Advising the government of Rwanda on the privatisation of the Pfunda tea factory which was sold to a UK based tea trading company, LAB International. [3]
  • In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1998, ASI established "a semi-autonomous body known as the Implementation Secretariat (IS)" which "was given the responsibility of reviewing the status of 87 state-owned enterprises and cooperative societies." On its website, ASI states that "to date, more than fifty enterprises and cooperatives have been privatised, disinvested, closed or restructured, creating over US$110m of revenue for the Government of Andhra Pradesh and making fiscal savings of over $300m." [4]
  • In Ghana since 1999, ASI has been working on a project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) DFID to develop proposals on water supply issues. DfID asked ASI has to help a government regulatory body to develop a pro-poor regulatory social policy that will result in universal access to affordable water.
  • In January 2004, ASI hosted a major international conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with assistance once more from DfID, promoting its preferred free trade policies including canvassing a South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and the repeal of the "highly restrictive" Multi-Fibre Arrangement on textiles. [5]
  • In Iraq, with DfID funding, ASI is working on a project to "assist three vital Iraqi ministries (Finance; Planning & Development Coordination; Municipalities & Public Works) in building emergency capacity for the immediate provision of vital services. ASI is involved in laying the foundations for long-term reform". [6]

Think Tank's Water Bank Rankles

DfID paid ASI "more than £500,000 to provide advice to the Tanzanian government," with over half that amount spent on a video extolling the benefits of water privatisation, the Guardian reported in May 2005. "Our old industries are dry like crops and privatisation brings the rain," was one statement in the video. [7]

"UK ministers have been accused of spending British aid money on a public relations campaign to promote water privatisation in Sierra Leone," reported BBC News in August 2005. Vicky Cann, of the organization World Development Movement, criticized the British Department for International Development (DfID), saying, "In the poorest country of the world, which is still recovering from a decade long bitter civil war, DfID is not only going to pay international consultants to advise on how to privatise water ... but they will also pay for a propaganda campaign to run alongside it to counter public resistance." [8] The eight firms under consideration for the contract include ASI and PricewaterhouseCoopers, according to the Guardian. In May, a similar water privatization scheme in Tanzania that DfID paid Adam Smith International £273,000 to promote collapsed "after the contractor, Biwater, was asked to leave by the government." [9]

Personnel

Contact details

Adam Smith International
Westminster Tower
3 Albert Embankment
London SE1 7SP
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7735 6660
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7793 0090
Email: Mailbox AT AdamSmithInternational.com
Web:http://www.adamsmithinternational.com/

External links

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