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 …

Can private sector participation (PSP) in the piped water sector improve child health? I use child-level data from 39 … a 7.8 percentage point increase in school attendance of 7–17 year olds. Importantly, PSP increases usage of piped water … exploit time-variation in the private water market share controlled by African countries’ former colonizers. A placebo …

in the U.S. water sector through public-private partnerships. Our estimates suggest that a variety of factors help …

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 …

Successful network utility privatisation requires incentive-based regulation that allows investment to be adequately … utility, with a ranking telecoms, gas, electricity, water and lastly, rail. There are doubts whether privatising rail delivers … consumer prices for telecoms, gas and electricity fell in the UK, overcoming most opposition to privatisation …