MARKET SOLUTIONS AND INEQUALITIES IN SANITATION SERVICES ACCESS IN BRAZILIAN CITIES

Alberto De OLIVEIRA ()
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Alberto De OLIVEIRA: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2018, vol. 13, issue 4, 28-42

Abstract: Market solutions have become the core of public administration in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The aim of this paper is surveying sanitation services in Brazil in order to discuss how the privatization and other means to transfer public services to private capital hands may reduce the sanitation services access for low-income households. The paper drew out experiences from different areas of Brazilian territory with the view to show the complexities involved in public policies related to sanitation services. The arguments presented in this paper show that the market solutions may not be the best answer to improve sanitation access to low-income households the mismatch of objectives between private capital and public policy. Also, Brazilian experiences show that the inequalities in sanitation services access reflect the lack of accountability. Brazil has legal instruments and institutions to improve its sanitation accountability but there is no social control over those institutions. In conclusion, the way to improve sanitation services to low- income households does not depend on changes in the ownership of utilities or in institutional/legal design, but how to manage the existing instruments in regard to a less unequal system.

Keywords: basic sanitation; spatial inequalities; Brazil; water policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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