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Private Firms and Public Water

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  • Nick Johnstone
  • Libby Wood

Abstract

While the potential economic benefits of PSP are well-known, the authors extensively discuss the environmental and social implications unique to the sector. The focus of the book is on the crucial role public authorities must continue to play to guarantee sustainability, levels of service and access to a variety of consumers. The authors show how these objectives are realised in very different ways – and not always successfully – in developing countries. The authors critically review the current literature and include new case studies from Manila, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Abidjan and Mexico City.

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  • Nick Johnstone & Libby Wood (ed.), 2001. "Private Firms and Public Water," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2299.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:2299
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    1. Kirkpatrick, Colin & Parker, David & Zhang, Yin-Fang, 2004. "State versus Private Sector Provision of Water Services in Africa: A Statistical, DEA and Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis," Centre on Regulation and Competition (CRC) Working papers 30604, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).
    2. Hug March & David Saurí, 2013. "The Unintended Consequences of Ecological Modernization: Debt-Induced Reconfiguration of the Water Cycle in Barcelona," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(9), pages 2064-2083, September.
    3. Diana Mitlin, 2008. "GATS and water services," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 8(1), pages 31-44, January.
    4. VKaren Bakker, Michelle Kooy, Nur Endah Shofiani, and Ernst-Jan Martijn, 2006. "Disconnected: Poverty, Water Supply and Development in Jakarta, Indonesia," Human Development Occasional Papers (1992-2007) HDOCPA-2006-01, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
    5. Joop Koppenjan & Martijn Leijten, 2005. "Privatising Railroads: The Problematic Involvement of the Private Sector in Two Dutch Railway Projects," Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(2), pages 181-199, December.
    6. Barbier,Edward B., 2007. "Natural Resources and Economic Development," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521706513.
    7. Ariel Dinar & Kurt Schwabe (ed.), 2015. "Handbook of Water Economics," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 15535.
    8. Colin Kirkpatrick & David Parker, 2005. "Domestic Regulation and the WTO: The Case of Water Services in Developing Countries," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(10), pages 1491-1508, October.
    9. Edward B. Barbier, 2004. "Water and Economic Growth," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 80(248), pages 1-16, March.
    10. World Bank, 2006. "Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services : A Toolkit," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6982, December.
    11. Xun Wu & Nepomuceno A. Malaluan, 2008. "A Tale of Two Concessionaires: A Natural Experiment of Water Privatisation in Metro Manila," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(1), pages 207-229, January.
    12. Bakker, Karen & Kooy, Michelle & Shofiani, Nur Endah & Martijn, Ernst-Jan, 2008. "Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(10), pages 1891-1915, October.
    13. Kirkpatrick, Colin & Parker, David, 2004. "Regulation and the Privatisation of Water Services in Developing Countries: Assessing the Impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)," Centre on Regulation and Competition (CRC) Working papers 30600, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).

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    Keywords

    Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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