Eficiencia en la prestación de agua y saneamiento y su vinculación con regiones, propiedad e independencia de los prestadores en Brasil

Efficiency in water and sanitation providers and its links with regions, property, and independence in Brazil

Gustavo Ferro, Emilio J. Lentini, Augusto Mercadier and Carlos Romero

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess comparative efficiency in water and sanitation sector in Brazil. We run a Sthocastic Frontier Analysis model for a panel of 127 providers, covering more than 70% of urban population of the country. We search and find an explanation for cost efficiency, and we explore its interrelations with regions, property and independence of the providers. We use a database built on the SNIS (National System of Sanitation Statistics) to run a SFA cost model. We add to the formula, environmental and institutional variables, trying to capture differences in costs and efficiency attributable to the ambience of operation. We achieve a satisfactory model, showing a modest efficiency average, and we could patterns, even not well defined. The study has policy implications, in the discussion state-run versus municipal-run, public versus private, and corporitized versus dependent providers. The optimal industrial organization of the sector can be analyzed since the efficiency perspective.

Keywords: Efficiency; water and sanitation; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L95 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07-11
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