'Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in
Developing Countries' analyzes the market growth of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in …

Cost reduction was the key benefit claimed by privatization. We conduct a review of all
published econometric studies of water and waste production since 1970. Little support is …

Many empirical works have been devoted to analysing the factors explaining local
privatisation. Overall, most of the empirical analyses have low explanatory power due to the …

We use an original database of 5000 French local public authorities to explore the impact of
organizational choice and performance as measured by consumer prices. In quantifying the …

Water scholars and practitioners generally agree that improving water governance is the key
to addressing water insecurity in developing countries. We review the literature on water …

This paper aims at explaining the differences in the results of empirical studies of
motivations for local privatization by undertaking a meta-regression. Our results suggest that …

Intermunicipal cooperation is being increasingly adopted in various countries as a part of
local service delivery reforms. This article draws on survey data from Spain's municipalities …

Governments face a fundamental choice between in‐house production and contracting out
for the delivery of services to citizens. This article examines the importance of ideology, fiscal …

This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over
the automobile product development life cycle. Building on recent work in organizational …

This chapter assesses what is known regarding the relationship between the ownership and
performance of municipal water utilities. It examines the theoretical models predicting that …