Since 1999 a multilateral effort termed the Nile Basin Initiative has been underway among the Nile riparians to explore opportunities for maximizing the benefits of the river's waters through cooperative development and management of the basin. However, to date there has been virtually no...

Nation-states rarely go to war over water, but it is equally rare that water conflicts in an international river basin are resolved through cooperation among the riparian countries that use the shared resources. Gains from cooperation will mean little to individual riparians unless the required...

In February 1997 Maynilad Water Services, Inc. and Manila Water Company, Inc. were awarded concession contracts from Manila's Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and split between them the service areas in Metro Manila. In the years thereafter, the paths taken by the two...

Proper roles for government and market in addressing policy problems may be assessed by considering the duality between market imperfections and government imperfections. The potential of government interventions or market mechanisms as core policy instruments can be eroded by fundamental...

China has emerged as one of the world's most active markets for public-private partnerships (PPP) in the water sector, while the pace of such development globally has slowed in recent years. This article investigates the dynamics of the development of PPP projects in the Chinese water sector...

While local government entrepreneurship has long been regarded as one of the main drivers of China's economic growth, it has increasingly been recognised as a potential source of a set of harmful policy consequences in recent years, such as rising government debt crises, pervasive corruption and...

While it is widely agreed that local governments played a critical role in infrastructure building and industrial development in China – as key factors in its “economic miracle” - the relationship between local government entrepreneurship and the development of specialized markets through...

This paper proposes to integrate disparate notions of governance capacity by adopting a resource-based view of capacity. Governance capacity can be defined as the set of organizational and systemic resources necessary to make sound policy choices and implement them effectively. Adopting this...

It is often argued that the true benefits of water resource development in international river basins are undermined by a lack of consideration of interdependence in water resource planning. Yet it has not been adequately recognized in the water resources planning literature that overestimation...