) affects accountability. There are two main effects. (1) Privatisation demotivates governments from investigating and … responding to public demands, since providers then hold up service adaptations. (2) Privatisation demotivates the public from …

. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with … difference-in-difference-in-difference approach. The results indicate that privatization and the associated increase in …

Recent studies of the effectiveness of privatisation programmes in the water and sanitation sector have highlighted the … sanitation privatisation programmes in the city and province of Buenos Aires suggests that the main institutional change achieved … by privatisation – the insertion of an agent with a profit motive – can yield pressures for more progressive pricing and …