Publication: Water Operators from Emerging Markets : New Players for Public-Private Partnerships
Date
2010-06
ISSN
Published
2010-06
Author(s)
Abstract
In the 1990s a few multinationals
dominated the market for public-private partnership (PPP)
contracts in water. Yet in recent year's water
operators from developing countries have won most of the new
PPP contracts for the management of water utilities in
countries as diverse as Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China,
Colombia, India, Malaysia, and the Russian Federation. While
the size of the market served by large foreign operators has
remained stagnant since 2001, the population served by
private operators from developing countries grew from 15
million to more than 70 million, or 40 percent of the
market, by 2008. This big shift opens new perspectives on
using PPPs as a tool to reform water utilities in the
developing world.
Citation
“Marin, Philippe; Izaguirre, Ada Karina; Danilenko, Alexander. 2010. Water Operators from Emerging Markets : New Players for Public-Private Partnerships. Gridlines; No. 56. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/4cda7503-5c23-55aa-b648-e46d81ec6a3b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”