This paper studies the effects of water sector privatization on consumers' welfare in 46 municipalities in Colombia …. The paper evaluates the impact of privatization on access, price, and quality of water as well as health outcomes using … differences-in-differences methodology with variation across time (before and after privatization) and between treatment and …

the poor have benefited from privatization. The book presents a careful analysis of the various mechanisms through which … privatization has an impact on welfare, an analysis that by and large has been missing from the debate. Case studies of water sector … privatization in Argentina and Colombia, and also the telecom industry in Peru are included. …