Private Activity in Water and Sewerage Continues to Contract in the First Semester of 2011
In the first semester of 2011, twelve new water and sewerage projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in four lower- and upper-middle income countries. Additionally, a second phase of the divestiture of Aguas And...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16829000/private-activity-water-sewerage-continues-contract-first-semester-2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16137 |
| Summary: | In the first semester of 2011, twelve
new water and sewerage projects with private participation
reached financial or contractual closure in four lower- and
upper-middle income countries. Additionally, a second phase
of the divestiture of Aguas Andinas Empresa Metropolitana de
Obras de Santiago de Chile (EMOS), took place in Chile
bringing total investment commitments (hereafter,
investment) in water and sewerage projects amounted to
US$1.6 billion a 12 percent increase compared to 2010 first
semester levels. The Chilean divestiture, however, accounted
for 62 percent of the total investment in 2011 involving
investment commitments of US$986 million. |
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