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1 Online-Ressource (x, 238 pages)
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Ausgabe:
First edition
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Reproduktion Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350222304
Inhalt:
A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South
Anmerkung:
The (confused) corporate personality of water districts
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Includes index
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About the editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization; State of the debate; Corporatization in historical perspective; Neoliberal corporatization; A progressive future?; Research methods; Table 1.1 List of case studies; Table 1.2 Criteria used to evaluate corporatization; Notes; References; 2 An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica's ICE; An atypical social democracy; The evolution of electricity services in Costa Rica. ICE's track recordTable 2.1 Current situation of the Costa Rican electricity sector vis-à-vis countries that have adopted market reforms; Figure 2.1 Electricity access in Latin America and the Caribbean; Figure 2.2 Average price of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean; Table 2.2 Costa Rica's installed generating capacity and power generation per source; Liberalization and corporatization of ICE; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3 Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience; Neoliberal macro-reforms and foreign aid; Millennium Challenges; Decentralization. Rural-urban dividesHistory of ONEA; ONEA today; Figure 3.1 Water prices in selected African countries; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 An 'Arab Spring' for corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG); History of STEG; Contractualization = corporatization; Assessing STEG's performance; After the revolution; Reflections and lessons learned; Notes; References; 5 Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay; OSE in regional context; Table 5.1 Average annual investment per capita in selected Latin American countries in water supply and sanitation; History of OSE. A model public water companyCorporatization: blurring the public-private divide; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Interviews; 6 Can 'public' survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia; Table 6.1 The 'standard menu' for electricity reform; The Malaysian policy context; Table 6.2 OPP target ownership of share capital in companies, peninsular Malaysia, 1970-90; Table 6.3 Comparative GDP per capita (2000 US) and poverty performance; The corporatization of TNB; Table 6.4 Electricity sector performance in selected Asian countries, -- 1987. Figure 6.1 Structure of authorities in the electricity sector in MalaysiaPost-corporatization performance; Table 6.5 TNB summary of financial performance, 2007-12; Table 6.6 Comparative electricity prices, ASEAN-4; Figure 6.2 Power sector reform proposals as applied to Tenaga's current structure; Table 6.7 Emerging power sector reform proposals; Lessons learned; Notes; References; 7 Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines; A brief history of water services in the Philippines; Table 7.1 Philippine water utilities by type of management model.
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Also published in print
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ISBN 9781783600199
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ISBN 9781783600182
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ISBN 1350222305
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783600182
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350222304
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