Tapping the Market The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urba
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 suppl
- PDF / 1,346,051 Bytes
- 225 Pages / 375.715 x 595.418 pts Page_size
- 49 Downloads / 166 Views
Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys
Tapping the Market
The Role of Government in Adjusting Economies General Editor: Professor Richard Batley, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham Over the last two decades there has been a strong emphasis on reducing the role of government and on reforming traditional public sector bureaucracies. The new conventional view has become that, where possible, services should not be provided directly by government but be contracted out or privatized. Where this is not possible, the predominant view has been that the public sector itself should change by setting up semi-autonomous agencies and by making public management more performance- and customer-oriented. This series investigates the application of such reforms in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Underlying the enquiry is the question whether reforms which were initially conceived in countries such as Britain and New Zealand are appropriate in other contexts. How much sense do they make where levels of public management capacity, market development, resources, political inclusiveness, legal effectiveness, political and public economic stability are quite different? To investigate these issues, the series covers four service sectors selected to be representative of types of public sector activity – health care, urban water supply, agricultural marketing services and business development services. Titles include: Mike Hubbard DEVELOPING AGRICULTURAL TRADE New Roles for Government in Poor Countries Paul Jackson BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA AND AFRICA The Role of Government Agencies Anne Mills, Sara Bennett and Steven Russell THE CHALLENGE OF HEALTH SECTOR REFORM What Must Governments Do? Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys TAPPING THE MARKET The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector The Role of Government in Adjusting Economies Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–94618–9 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England
Tapping the Market The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector Andrew Nickson Reader in Public Management and Latin American Development University of Birmingham UK and Richard Franceys Senior Lecturer in Water and Sanitation Management Cranfield University UK
© Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys 2003 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2003 978-0-333-73620-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or
Data Loading...
