The main purpose of this paper is to argue that the optimal design of regulation of water and sanitation monopolies …

The main purpose of this paper is to argue that the optimal design of regulation of water and sanitation monopolies …

The design of regulation for water supply and sanitation (WSS) services has tended to follow a check-box approach … hope for the best. This approach has not always worked well. Regulation cannot solve all the problems that confront WSS … services, and imported models may not work locally. Regulation must be based on a clear understanding of its capabilities and …

stochastic metafrontier approach was employed to estimate and compare the productivity change of the English and Welsh Water and … Sewerage companies (WaSCs) and Water only companies (WoCs) during the years 1991-2016. To identify the drivers of productivity … growth, the metafrontier Malmquist productivity was decomposed into four components namely: Group-frontier efficiency change …