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Author McDonald, David A

Title Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South
Published London : Zed Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents About the editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization; State of the debate; Corporatization in historical perspective; Neoliberal corporatization; A progressive future?; Research methods; Table 1.1 List of case studies; Table 1.2 Criteria used to evaluate corporatization; Notes; References; 2 An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica's ICE; An atypical social democracy; The evolution of electricity services in Costa Rica
ICE's track recordTable 2.1 Current situation of the Costa Rican electricity sector vis-à-vis countries that have adopted market reforms; Figure 2.1 Electricity access in Latin America and the Caribbean; Figure 2.2 Average price of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean; Table 2.2 Costa Rica's installed generating capacity and power generation per source; Liberalization and corporatization of ICE; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3 Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience; Neoliberal macro-reforms and foreign aid; Millennium Challenges; Decentralization
Rural-urban dividesHistory of ONEA; ONEA today; Figure 3.1 Water prices in selected African countries; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 An 'Arab Spring' for corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG); History of STEG; Contractualization = corporatization; Assessing STEG's performance; After the revolution; Reflections and lessons learned; Notes; References; 5 Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay; OSE in regional context; Table 5.1 Average annual investment per capita in selected Latin American countries in water supply and sanitation; History of OSE
A model public water companyCorporatization: blurring the public-private divide; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Interviews; 6 Can 'public' survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia; Table 6.1 The 'standard menu' for electricity reform; The Malaysian policy context; Table 6.2 OPP target ownership of share capital in companies, peninsular Malaysia, 1970-90; Table 6.3 Comparative GDP per capita (2000 US) and poverty performance; The corporatization of TNB; Table 6.4 Electricity sector performance in selected Asian countries, 1987
Figure 6.1 Structure of authorities in the electricity sector in MalaysiaPost-corporatization performance; Table 6.5 TNB summary of financial performance, 2007-12; Table 6.6 Comparative electricity prices, ASEAN-4; Figure 6.2 Power sector reform proposals as applied to Tenaga's current structure; Table 6.7 Emerging power sector reform proposals; Lessons learned; Notes; References; 7 Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines; A brief history of water services in the Philippines; Table 7.1 Philippine water utilities by type of management model
Summary A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South
Notes The (confused) corporate personality of water districts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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Subject Corporatization -- Developing countries
Public utilities -- Privatization -- Developing countries
Economic development -- Developing countries
Development economics & emerging economies.
Development studies.
Public administration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic development
Corporatization
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783600199
1783600195
1306582903
9781306582902
9781783600205
1783600209