The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation

ISBN-13: 9780415994897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 274 str.

Krause Matthias

Opis

Advances in human development are linked to increasing access to water and sanitation (WS) services in developing countries. Utilizing data from 69 nations, Krause argues that the level of democratic governance has a statistically significant positive impact on access to WS services.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Normative and problem-oriented framework for assessing WS policies  3. Political-economic framework for analysing the relation between governance and the provision of WS services   4. Political governance and access to WS services: A cross-country regression analysis  5. The role of governance and PSP for the provision of WS services: Case study on Colombia  6. Summary and conclusions.  Appendix.

O autorze

Matthias Krause is an economist at the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany. He has several years of research and working experience in Latin America (among others in Chile, Brazil and Colombia). His main research activities lie within the fields of private sector participation in infrastructure, political economy of regulation, and private sector development.