Articles by FIVAS
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Water: From Privatisation to Corporatisation and the Need for a Counter-Strategy
FIVAS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The report explores the development from privatisation to corporatisation, within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. It calls for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, in order to counter the neoliberal tactical shift towards corporatisation. Corporatisation reform entails the implementation of commercial neoliberal management principles within public sector water utilities.
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Jørgen Eiken Magdahl – Association for International Water Studies-FIVAS,
2 Apr 2012
There has been a development and shift away from privatisation as the dominant strategy towards the so-called corporatisation and commercialisation of public water services. The main purpose of this report is to analyse the strategic development in policy that has taken place, the World Bank’s neoliberal strategy on corporatisation of urban water services and concrete case studies of corporatisation projects in Sub-Saharan Africa as examples of this strategy.
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