Burkina Faso

Issaka Kouanda and Mouhamad Moudassir

Chapter 8 in Social Policies and Private Sector Participation in Water Supply, 2008, pp 203-229 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As discussed in the introductory chapter of this book, there has been a worldwide trend towards the privatization of state-owned companies in the water sector over the past two decades. Africa has been no exception to this phenomenon: under the aegis of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), many countries have privatized their water sectors. The primary justification for this reform was based on the idea that public ownership meant inefficiency and mismanagement and that the state could not inject the additional investments required. It was argued that with the status quo scenario with public management, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving the number of people without access to potable water would not be achieved.

Keywords: Potable Water; Urban Centre; Poor Household; Safe Water; Water Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582880_8

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