This paper compares water and sanitation services in municipalities that entered into a concession arrangement with a … explore five variables of interest: (i) water coverage; (ii) sewage collection; (iii) sewage treatment; (iv) average tariff …; and (v) water losses. Using an empirical strategy and making improvements over previous literature, after controlling for …

focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the … examine the pre- and post-privatisation periods. Close inspection of the household surveys reveals that access to water by low …This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it …

approaches to improving water management, i.e., the establishment of water markets and the privatisation of water utilities, by …A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management …. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by …

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic … privatisation and other reforms on consumer prices using both subjective data on consumers' perception of utility prices and data on …

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic … privatisation and other reforms on consumer prices using both subjective data on consumers' perception of utility prices and data on … average prices paid. -- privatisation ; electricity ; gas ; reforms …

Delhi has seen the rise of a parallel industry in water supply: the private water tankers or the ‘tanker mafia,' which … market. One of the key findings of this paper is that the efficiency of operation and water being an essential utility has …

In 1997 the government of the Philippines privatised the water services in the Manila Metropolitan Area (covering … approximately 11 million people) by granting two large concession areas to consortia of international water companies and local … partners. This case study tracks the successful efforts of one concessionaire, Manila Water Company (MWC), to operate under a …

This study presents empirical evidence that a health improvement program---privatization of municipal water services …