Heterogeneity in the Cost Structure of Water and Sanitation Services : A Cross-Country Comparison of Conditions for Scale Economies

The main purpose of this article is to compare the cost structure of water utilities across a set of 14 countries with different levels of economic development. As far as is known, the cross-country perspective is novel in this literature. This article first provides new measures of returns to scale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nauges, Celine, van den Berg, Caroline
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4805