Private Participation in the Water and Sewerage Sector : Recent Trends
The PPI (Private Participation in Infrastructure) Project Database covers private participation in infrastructure in developing countries. The database records details of all projects owned or managed by private companies in 1984-97 in the water, e...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/08/441603/private-participation-water-sewerage-sector-recent-trends http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11540 |
| Summary: | The PPI (Private Participation in
Infrastructure) Project Database covers private
participation in infrastructure in developing countries. The
database records details of all projects owned or managed by
private companies in 1984-97 in the water, energy,
transport, and telecommunications sectors. This Note focuses
on private water and sewerage projects that reached
financial closure between 1990 and 1997 and surveys regional
trends, type of private participation, project size, and top
sponsors and operators. The PPI Database reveals the
following trends in private participation in water and
sewerage: a) a regional and national concentration of
private water projects, reflecting varied government efforts
to create conditions for sustainable private involvement
through pricing, regulatory, and institutional reforms, but
also a ripple effect from growing government familiarity
with private involvement in the sector; b) a dominance of
concession contracts compared with divestitures, BOT (build,
operate, transfer) contracts, leases, and, management
contracts; and c) a few international companies sponsoring
and operating most major projects. |
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