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Transparency ‘Fixes’ for Local Public Services : Field Experimental Evidence from Bangalore's Water Sector
Kumar, Tanu - 2017
Can providing citizens with information compensate for unreliable public services? We present a field-experimental evaluation of a program that provided households in Bangalore with advance notification of intermittently provided piped water. The implementers expected that increasing service...
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Using a Private Operator to Establish a Corporatized Public Water Utility : The Management Contract for Johannesburg Water
World Bank - 2012
the delivery of public utility services, where a five-year management contract successfully restored services, built local … capacity, and helped put Johannesburg Water on a solid footing. The management contract for water supply and sanitation …. While an experienced international operator was brought in, the aim of the PPP was not to transfer management to a private …
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Changing prices after the reform of local public services : remunicipalization versus privatization
Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; González Gómez, Francisco - In: Journal of regulatory economics 65 (2024) 1/3, pp. 1-26
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In Hot Water? Issues at Stake in the Regulation of French Water Public Services
Porcher, Simon - 2018
direct management. Such a diversity of governance forms allows for efficiency and quality benchmarking between direct and … delegated management, and raises questions about the determinants of the choice of the local government to manage or delegate …
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Key Topics in Public Water Utility Reform
Ginneken, Meike van; Kingdom, Bill - 2012
Urban water supply services have traditionally been provided by state-owned, water utilities. In the past decades, many governments have tried to turn state-owned water utilities into effective and viable organizations with mixed success. Why have some public utilities become more efficient...
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Decentralization and Service Delivery in Albania : Governance in the Water Sector
World Bank - 2013
This review of the water sector in Albania was prepared as a background paper to the World Bank s Country Partnership Strategy for Albania for 2011-2014. It draws on past analytical work on decentralization in Albania as well as relevant World Bank-financed operations such as the Water Sector...
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Water markets in the West : prices, trading, and contractual forms
Brewer, Jedidiah; Glennon, Robert Jerome; Ker, Alan P.; … - 2007
Rising urban and environmental demand for water has created growing pressure to re-allocate water from traditional agricultural uses. The evolution of water markets has been more complicated than those for other resources. In this paper, we first explain these differences by examining water...
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Hedging supply risks : an optimal urban water portfolio
Leroux, Anke D.; Martin, Vance - 2014
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Urban water systems in India : a way forward
Shah, Mihir - 2016
Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been … on water and wastewater management. The paper advances a series of hypotheses, an initial analytical framework and the …
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