Privatisation and the poor

"I am looking for case studies on cities and rural areas concerning the results of a privatisation process in the water supply sector in developing countries. I am especially interested in studies that focus on the consequences for the poor."

We have made a selection of resources on privatisation and the poor from our website, including articles from our news service Source Weekly. Many of them are or contain case studies.

Key website

• Public-private partnerships and the poor in water and sanitation
  a project carried out by WEDC, Loughbourough University, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/projects/new_projects3.php?id=26

Organisations / networks

• Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) researches privatisation and restructuring of public services around the world, http://www.irc.nl/page/6997

• Water for All - International, including reports from around the world providing information on the water privatisation issue in more than twenty countries, http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/

Books and articles

• Water Privatisation Revisited: Panacea or pancake?
  Jarmo J. Hukka and Tapio S. Katko. (2003), online available at http://www.irc.nl/page/6003

• Privatisation: in the interests of the poor? In Source Weekly, 24 Feb 2003, http://www.irc.nl/page/2630

• Privatisation: making subsidies work for the poor, in Source Weekly, 19 Dec 2003, http://www.irc.nl/page/7624

• Bolivia : ' pro-poor ' water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia ? In Source Weekly, 19 Dec 2003, http://www.irc.nl/page/7638

• Water privatisation: failing to fulfil its promises, in Source Weekly, 23 Feb 2004, http://www.irc.nl/page/8205

• NGO views on water financing become more realistic, in Source Weekly, 15 March 2004, http://www.irc.nl/page/8476

• Peru : users against Sedapal privatisation, in Source Weekly, 20 Apr 2004, http://www.irc.nl/page/9138

• Bringing water to the poor : selected ADB case studies (2004), http://www.irc.nl/ircdoc/title.php?titleno=28969

• Public private partnerships and the poor in water supply projects (2003), http://www.irc.nl/ircdoc/title.php?titleno=28813

More articles published in the last 12 months (results page of a search on privatisation within Source Weekly, listing titles of the articles)

Please also check our library database IRCDOC, for more results. See http://www.irc.nl/ircdoc

Two search options are:

• (private sector
  OR privatisation)
  AND poverty

• (privatisation
  OR private sector)
  AND low-income communities