Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

Herausgeber: McDonald, David A

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781783600182
• ISBN-10: 1783600187
• Artikelnr.: 40450871

Autorenporträt

David McDonald is professor of global development studies at Queen's University, Canada, and co-director of the Municipal Services Project. His research relates primarily to the delivery of essential services in the global South, and encompasses a broad spectrum of related questions around urbanization, environmental justice and uneven development.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization - David A.
McDonald 2. An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social
democracy: Costa Rica's ICE - Daniel Chavez 3. Hybrid water governance in
Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience - Catherine Baron 4. An 'Arab Spring' for
corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG) - Ali
Bennasr and Eric Verdeil 5. Modernization and the boundaries of public
water in Uruguay - Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo and Marcela Olivera 6. Can
'public' survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia - Nepomuceno
A. Malaluan 7. Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines -
Buenaventura B. Dargantes, Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes and Elsie
B. Mira 8. Corporatization in the European water sector: lessons for the
global South - Emanuele Lobina and David Hall 9. Corporatization is dead
... long live corporatization? - David A. McDonald