Does Society Win or Lose as a Result of Privatization? The Case of Water Sector Privatization in Colombia

• Tác giả: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 079.86 Journalism and newspapers in other geographic areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 311936
• Chủ đề: 1. Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises; 2. Contracting Out L330; 3. Gas Utilities; 4. Health Production I120; 5. Privatization

Tóm tắt

 This paper evaluates the impact of water sector privatization in Colombia on access, price and water quality, as well as health outcomes using differences-in-differences methodology. The main findings of the impact of water privatization are: (i) an improvement in the quality of water and an increase in the frequency of the service in privatized urban municipalities for the lower quintiles
  (ii) a positive effect on health outcomes in both urban and rural areas
  (iii) a negative effect on payment for the lower quintiles
  and (iv) strong negative effects on access to water in rural areas. Some of these effects appear in municipalities with better technical capacity.