Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

Intro -- About the editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization -- State of the debate -- Corporatization in historical perspective -- Neoliberal corporatization -- A progressive future? -- Research methods -- Table 1.1 List of case studies -- Table 1.2 Criteria used to evaluate corporatization -- Notes -- References -- 2 An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica's ICE -- An atypical social democracy -- The evolution of electricity services in Costa Rica -- ICE's track record -- Table 2.1 Current situation of the Costa Rican electricity sector vis-à-vis countries that have adopted market reforms -- Figure 2.1 Electricity access in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Figure 2.2 Average price of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Table 2.2 Costa Rica's installed generating capacity and power generation per source -- Liberalization and corporatization of ICE -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience -- Neoliberal macro-reforms and foreign aid -- Millennium Challenges -- Decentralization -- Rural-urban divides -- History of ONEA -- ONEA today -- Figure 3.1 Water prices in selected African countries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 An 'Arab Spring' for corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG) -- History of STEG -- Contractualization = corporatization -- Assessing STEG's performance -- After the revolution -- Reflections and lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- 5 Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay -- OSE in regional context -- Table 5.1 Average annual investment per capita in selected Latin American countries in water supply and sanitation