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Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

Author:
David McDonald
Year:
2014
Publisher:
Zed Books
Number of pages:
236
Available languages:
EN l ES
ISBN:
978-1-78360-018-2 hb, 978-1-78360-017-5 pb
Available Formats:
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Abstract

After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public management are back in vogue. This book explores this rapidly growing trend towards ‘corporatization’ - public enterprises owned and operated by the state, with varying degrees of autonomy. If sometimes driven by neoliberal agendas, there exist examples of corporatization that could herald a brighter future for equity-oriented public services.

Drawing on original case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America, this book critically examines the histories, structures, ideologies and social impacts of corporatization in the water and electricity sectors, interrogating the extent to which it can move beyond commercial goals to deliver progressive public services. The first collection of its kind, Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South offers rich empirical insight and theoretical depth into what has become one of the most important public policy shifts for essential services in the global South.

 

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English

Chapters

Chapter 1: Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization - David A. McDonald

Chapter 2: An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica’s ICE - Daniel Chavez

Chapter 3: Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience - Catherine Baron

Disponible en français : « Corporatisation » dans le secteur de l’eau potable : l’ONEA, une expérience inédite en Afrique de l’Ouest

Chapter 4: An ‘Arab Spring’ for corporatization? Tunisia’s national electricity company (STEG) - Ali Bennasr and Eric Verdeil

Disponible en français : Un printemps arabe pour la corporatisation ? La Société tunisienne de l’électricité et du gaz

Chapter 5: Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay - Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo and Marcela Olivera

Chapter 6: Can ‘public’ survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia - Nepomuceno A. Malaluan

Chapter 7: Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines - Buenaventura B. Dargantes, Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes and Elsie B. Mira

Chapter 8: Corporatization in the European water sector: lessons for the global South - Emanuele Lobina and David Hall

Chapter 9: Corporatization is dead ... long live corporatization? - David A. McDonald

Spanish

ÍNDICE

Capítulo 1: La ambigüedad de lo público y los numerosos significados de la corporatización (David A. McDonald)

Capítulo 2: Una empresa de electricidad excepcional en una social democracia atípica: el instituto costarricense de electricidad (Daniel Chavez)

Capítulo 3: Gobernabilidad híbrida del agua en Burkina Faso: la experiencia de la ONEA (Catherine Baron)

Capítulo 4: ¿Una primavera árabe para la corporatización? La empresa nacional de electricidad de Túnez (Ali Bennasr y Eric Verdeil)

Capítulo 5: La modernización y los límites del modelo de agua pública en Uruguay (Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo y Marcela Olivera)

Capítulo 6: ¿Puede lo público sobrevivir a la corporatización? El caso de la TNB en Malasia (Nepomuceno A. Malaluan)

Capítulo 7: Cuasi público: distritos de agua en Filipinas (Buenaventura B. Dargantes,Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes y Elsie B. Mira)

Capítulo 8: Corporatización en el sector del agua en Europa: lecciones para el Sur Global (Emanuele Lobina y David Hall)

Capítulo 9: La corporatización está muerta... ¿larga vida a la corporatización? (David A McDonald)

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