1st Edition

The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation

By Matthias Krause Copyright 2009
274 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people – mostly children under five – die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services. Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. By shifting the attention towards the influence of governance, Krause examines the political and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Normative and problem-oriented framework for assessing WS policies  3. Political-economic framework for analysing the relation between governance and the provision of WS services   4. Political governance and access to WS services: A cross-country regression analysis  5. The role of governance and PSP for the provision of WS services: Case study on Colombia  6. Summary and conclusions.  Appendix.

Biography

Matthias Krause is an economist at the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany. He has several years of research and working experience in Latin America (among others in Chile, Brazil and Colombia). His main research activities lie within the fields of private sector participation in infrastructure, political economy of regulation, and private sector development.