Rethinking corporatization and public services in the global South
By: edited by David A. McDonald
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781783600175; 9781783600182; 9781783600199
Subjects: Corporatization; Privatization; Public utilities; Public investments
Description: A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization  -- David A. McDonald -- 2.; title: An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica's ICE  -- Daniel Chavez -- 3.; title: Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience  -- Catherine Baron -- 4.; title: An 'Arab Spring' for corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG)  -- Ali Bennasr and Eric Verdeil -- 5.; title: Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay  -- Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo and Marcela Olivera -- 6.; title: Can 'public' survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia  -- Nepomuceno A. Malaluan -- 7.; title: Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines  -- Buenaventura B. Dargantes, Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes and Elsie B. Mira -- 8.; title: Corporatization in the European water sector: lessons for the global South  -- Emanuele Lobina and David Hall -- 9.; title: Corporatization is dead ... long live corporatization? -- David A. McDonald.