Water Nationalization and Service Quality
The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had little impact on access to the sanitation network...
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okr-10986-216142021-04-23T14:04:03Z Water Nationalization and Service Quality Borraz, Fernando Gonzalez Pampillon, Nicolas Olarreaga, Marcelo child mortality access to water provision of water public water water quality safe drinking water sanitation water supply The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had little impact on access to the sanitation network; the subsequent nationalization led to an increase in network access at the bottom of the income distribution as well as an improvement in water quality. 2015-03-18T15:29:01Z 2015-03-18T15:29:01Z 2013-09 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21614 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Uruguay |
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The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had little impact on access to the sanitation network; the subsequent nationalization led to an increase in network access at the bottom of the income distribution as well as an improvement in water quality. |
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Borraz, Fernando Gonzalez Pampillon, Nicolas Olarreaga, Marcelo |
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