Download or read book Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply written by Andrew Cotton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welfare Effects of Private Sector Participation in Guinea s Urban Water Supply written by George Clarke and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private sector participation in Guinea's urban water sector has benefited consumers, the government, and, to a lesser extent, the new foreign owners. Performance will improve further when the government starts paying its own water bill on time and when the legislature authorizes the collection of unpaid bills from private consumers.
Download or read book The Welfare Effects of Private Sector Participation in Guinea s Urban Water Supply written by George R. G. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private sector participation in Guinea's urban water sector has benefited consumers, the government, and, to a lesser extent, the new foreign owners. Performance will improve further when the government starts paying its own water bill on time and when the legislature authorizes the collection of unpaid bills from private consumers.In 1989 the government of Guinea enacted far-reaching reform of its water sector, which had been dominated by a poorly run public agency. The government signed a lease contract for operations and maintenance with a private operator, making a separate public enterprise responsible for ownership of assets and investment. Although based on a successful model that had operated in Cocirc;te d'Ivoire for nearly 30 years, the reform had many highly innovative features.It is being transplanted to several other developing countries, so Clarke, Meacute;nard, and Zuluaga evaluate its successes and failures in the early years of reform. They present standard performance measures and results from a cost-benefit analysis to assess reform's net effect on various stakeholders in the sector.They conclude that, compared with what might have been expected under continued public ownership, reform benefited consumers, the government, and, to a lesser extent, the foreign owners or the private operator.Most sector performance indicators improved, but some problems remain. The three most troublesome areas are water that is unaccounted for (there are many illegal connections and the quality of infrastructure is poor), poor collection rates, and high prices.The weak institutional environment makes it difficult to improve collection rates, but the government could take some steps to correct the problem. To begin with, it could pay its own bills on time. Also, the legislature could authorize the collection of unpaid bills from private individuals.This paper - a joint product of Public Economics and Regulation and Competition Policy, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to promote competition and private sector development. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Institutions, Politics, and Contracts: Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply (RPO 681-87). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Download or read book Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply written by Nana Y. A. Ametepe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Private Sector and Water Pricing in Efficient Urban Water Management written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing. It discusses in-depth topics such as public choices of urban water service management; dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services; adoption of water demand instruments; impacts of price and non-price policies on residential water demand; quality of water services; lessons from not-for-profit public-private partnerships; and critical examinations of models and projections of demands in water utility resource planning in England and Wales. Appropriateness of water prices and tariffs in achieving socially desirable outcomes is also analyzed and a global survey of urban water tariffs is approached with a focus on sustainability, efficiency and fairness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Management.
Download or read book Social Policies and Private Sector Participation in Water Supply written by N. Prasad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms. It presents a detailed analysis of the current issues, and uses country studies to show how social policies are vital in ensuring affordable access to water supply.
Download or read book Thirst for Reform written by Luke Haggarty and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector, each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" aaproach would reduce social and political opposition to private sector involvement and would allow the government to address pricing problems and strengthen regulatory arrangements.
Download or read book Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supplies written by USAID (Washington, DC). and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulation of Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure OECD Checklist for Public Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a coherent catalogue of policy directions, including appropriate allocation of roles, risks and responsibilities, framework conditions and contractual arrangements necessary to make the best of private sector participation in water infrastructure.
Download or read book The Regulation of Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation written by Nick Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply in South Africa written by Patrick Tandy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure written by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of OECD Water Policy and Finance Set - Buy all four reports and save over 30% on buying separately! Many countries have sought the involvement of the private sector to upgrade and develop their water and sanitation infrastructure and improve the efficiency of water systems. However, high capital intensity, large initial outlays, long pay-back periods, immobility of assets and low rates of return generate high risks. These factors, when combined with poor initial information and weak investment environment, limit the scale of private sector participation in water and sanitation infrastructure. Recognising this, the OECD has developed practical guidance, building on the OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure, to help governments and other stakeholders to assess and manage the implications of involving private actors in the financing, development and management of water and sanitation infrastructure. The resulting OECD Checklist for Public Action provides a coherent catalogue of policy directions for consideration by governments, including appropriate allocation of roles, risks and responsibilities, framework conditions and contractual arrangements necessary to make the best of private sector participation and harness more effectively the capacities of all stakeholders. This title is co-published with the OECD See also: Public and Private Participation in the Water and Wastewater Sector - Developing Sustainable Legal Mechanisms, Cledan Mandri-Perrott, 2009; Public Private Partnerships in the Water Sector, Innovation and Financial Sustainability, Cledan Mandri-Perrott and David Stiggers, 2012
Download or read book Private Sector Participation and Performance of Urban Water Utilities in the People s Republic of China written by Yi Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, the People's Republic of China opened its urban water sector to nonstate capital to help meet increasing urban water demand under severe water resource constraints. By 2007, more than 30% of urban water utilities had attracted private sector participation (PSP). To understand the factors that drive PSP in urban water supply, and to answer the key policy questions whether PSP has boosted investment and improved the efficiency in water supply, we assembled and analyzed a unique dataset consisting of more than 200 urban water utilities covering 1998-2007. Our estimations indicate that, except for the utility's profitability and urban road infrastructure in the prior year, the characteristics of the utility or city were not strong drivers of PSP. One interpretation is that private investors participating in this newly opened sector were less concerned with short-term factors. For utility performance, we find that PSP has reduced employment, has lowered managerial expenses relative to sales revenues, and has increased profitability significantly, in both the economic and statistical sense. PSP has positively affected utilities in other ways, although the estimates are not statistically significant. Further analysis indicates that most of the changes occurred in utilities with private shareholders in the majority rather than the minority.
Download or read book Thirst for Reform Private Sector Participation in Providing Mexico City s Water Supply written by Maria Ana Zuluaga and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 2001 In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector--each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" approach would reduce social and political opposition to private sector involvement and would allow the government to address pricing problems and strengthen regulatory arrangements. The case in Mexico City offered an opportunity to observe the advantages and disadvantages of gradualist reform. Unfortunately Haggarty, Brook, and Zuluaga find that the long-term nature of an incremental approach does not match well with the generally shorter-term horizons of elected politicians. Difficult decisions in implementation are left to later years, which pushes potentially unpopular actions onto the shoulders of future administrations, while allowing the current government to claim credit for instituting reform. The reform planned--and implemented--was not designed to tackle the city's most serious water problems, including overconsumption and waste. And reform did little to change residential consumers' incentives to conserve water. Overexploitation of the aquifer has been a problem since at least the 1930s. Mexico City is built on a series of drained lakebeds, and the land is soft and prone to settling, or subsiding, as the aquifer is depleted. Several areas of the city center have sunk by over two meters in the past decade alone. And by virtue of its location and elevation, the city's alternative water sources are expensive. The need for change is stark, but the power to undertake reform to tackle broad problems of resource management in the city and surrounding areas lies outside the jurisdiction of the D.F. with the federal government. Such external funding of major supply projects weakens the incentives for conservation. Reform reduced the increasing rate of overexploitation of the aquifer, but partly by simply failing to meet demand. Reform to provide more equitable and sustainable water delivery must focus on improving the efficiency of operations, on substantially reforming the way water resources are priced and allocated, and on the design, management, and pricing of wastewater services. Federal subsidies for new production must be reduced, prices for system operators and consumers must rise, and more must be invested in the treatment and storage of wastewater--all of which requires strong political leadership. This paper--a product of Regulation and Competition Policy, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze institutional issues in regulated infrastructure. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project "Institutions, Politics, and Contracts: Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply" (RPO 681-87). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Download or read book Tapping the Market written by A. Nickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the concession contract model. The implications for meeting the water needs of the urban poor, for the regulatory role of the state and for state capacity building are also discussed.
Download or read book The Child Health Implications of Privatizing Africa s Urban Water Supply written by Katrina Kosec and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying policies which can improve water sector management is critically important given the global burden of water-related disease. Each year, 1 in 10 child deathsroughly 800,000 in totalis the direct result of diarrhea. Can private-sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries during 19862010 to show that introducing PSP decreases diarrhea among urban dwelling children under five years of age by 5.6 percentage points, or 35 percent of its mean prevalence. PSP also leads to greater reliance on piped water. To attribute causality, the author exploits time variation in the private water market share controlled by African countries former colonizers. A placebo analysis reveals that PSP does not affect symptoms of respiratory illness in the same children, nor does it affect a rural control group unaffected by PSP.
