Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and Evidence from Latin America

Estache, Antonio; Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Leipziger, Danny

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00034-1

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“…Because municipal water typically costs less than substitutes such as vendor-supplied water (e.g. Estache, Gomez-Lobo, & Leipziger, 2001;Kjellén & McGranahan, 2006), we also hypothesized that notifications would reduce the reliance on substitutes, because they would decrease the probability of missing a supply. All costs are not material in nature; supply unpredictability may impose psychological costs as well.…”

Section: Household Welfare Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector

2018

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a b s t r a c tMany policies and programs based on informational interventions hinge upon the assumption that providing citizens with information can help improve the quality of public services, or help citizens cope with poor services. We present a causal framework that can be used to identify leaks and blockages in the information production and dissemination process in such programs. We conceptualize the ''information pipeline" as a series of connected nodes, each of which constitutes a possible point of blockage. We apply the framework to a field-experimental evaluation of a program that provided households in Bangalore, India, with advance notification of intermittently provided piped water. Our study detected no impacts on household wait times for water or on how citizens viewed the state, but found that notifications reduced stress. Our framework reveals that, in our case, noncompliance among human intermediaries and asymmetric gender relations contributed in large part to these null-to-modest results. Diagnostic frameworks like this should be used more extensively in development research to better understand the mechanisms responsible for program success and failure, to identify subgroups that actually received the intended treatment, and to identify potential leaks and blockages when replicating existing programs in new settings.

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Section: Household Welfare Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector

2018

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“…the increase in the value of a service with the number of users on a network (Best and MacLay 2002;Estache et al 2001) was an important design parameter for iREACH, which at the time of the study, operated two pilot sites, consisting of a headquarters (HQ), surrounded by nine village hubs. All hubs were located in publicly accessible buildings, such as commune offices, health centres, pagodas, schools, and private homes, within a radial distance of up to 20 kilometres from the HQ.…”

Section: Micro-levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding benefits realisation of iREACH from a capability approach perspective

Grunfeld

Hak²,

Pin³

2011

Ethics Inf Technol

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The research presented in this paper is the first wave of a longitudinal study of a Cambodian information and communication for development (ICT4D) project, iREACH, aimed at testing a framework for evaluating whether and how such initiatives can contribute to capabilities, empowerment and sustainability. The framework is informed by Amartya Sen's capability approach (CA), uses a participatory methodology, considers the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels in understanding the role ICT can play in the development process, and adopts a forward-looking longitudinal perspective. Key findings of this research are that the project had contributed to livelihoods and other aspects of well-being in diverse ways, primarily in education, health, and farming. Participants also valued the project because of its contribution to empowerment, particularly gender empowerment. Another way in which participants valued iREACH was of a more intrinsic nature, manifested in a general appreciation of just being part of the world and knowing about events in other parts of Cambodia and beyond. These findings are consistent with the CA's emphasis on development being about more than economic growth and support the importance of considering external factors, conceptualised here as the meso-and macro-levels, in the conversion of commodities in the form of services provided at iREACH, to capabilities.

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“…Many reinventing government schemes have been linked to a problematic neoliberal, smaller government ideology, and experience with measures like the privatization of water and sewer systems has not been entirely happy 24. We also found many instances of government reinvention that seemed to promote good government and healthy public policies.…”

Section: The Landscape Of Governance Innovation: From Reinventing Govmentioning

confidence: 83%

Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

Burris

Hancock²,

Lin³

et al. 2007

J Urban Health

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Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance by developing new institutions and processes of local stakeholder control. The paper highlights strategies urban governors can use to maximize their influence on the national and international decisions that structure urban life. It concludes with some observations on the limitations of local governance strategies and the importance of establishing a Bvirtuous circuit[ of governance through which urban dwellers play a greater role in the formation and implementation of policy at the national and global levels.

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Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and Evidence from Latin America

Cited by 83 publications

References 4 publications

Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector

Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector

Understanding benefits realisation of iREACH from a capability approach perspective

Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

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