Public Banks, Public Water: Exploring the Links in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032382777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 176 str.

Marois, Thomas

Opis

This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Water International.

Spis treści

1. Public banks, public water: exploring the links in Europe  2. Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies  3. Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance  4. Public water without (public) financial mediation? Remunicipalizing water in Valladolid, Spain  5. Public banks and the remunicipalization of water services in Paris  6. ‘No one can compete since no one dares to lend more cheaply!’: Turkey’s Ilbank and public water finance  7. Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region  8. Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector  9. The European Investment Bank and its role in financing public water  Conclusion: Copper bullets and the future of public banks and public water in Europe