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Frontiers in Water Resource Economics

Goetz, Renan (contributor); Berga, Dolors (contributor) - 2006

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Tapping the Market : The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector

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This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the...

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