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The age of commodity : water privatization in Southern Africa
- Title
- The age of commodity : water privatization in Southern Africa / David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters.
- Author
- McDonald, David A. (David Alexander)
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, c2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ruiters, Greg, 1959-
- Description
- xv, 303 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Theorizing water privatization in Southern Africa / David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters -- The new water architecture of SADC / Larry A. Swatuk -- The constitutional implications of commercializing water in South Africa / Sean Flynn and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa -- Turning off the taps on the GATS / Karl Flecker and Tony Clarke -- Entrenching inequalities : the impact of corporatization on water injustices in Pretoria / Peter McInnis -- Managing the poor by remote control : Johannesburg's experiments with prepaid water meters / Ebrahim Harvey -- Public money, private failure : the limits of market-based solutions in water delivery in Nelspruit / Laila Smith, Amanda Gillett, Shauna Mottiar and Fiona White -- The political economy of public private contracts : urban water in two Eastern Cape towns / Greg Ruiters -- The murky waters of second wave neoliberalism : corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town / Laila Smith -- "Free water" as commodity : the paradoxes of Durban's water service transformations / Alex Loftus -- The rise and fall of water privatization in rural South Africa : a critical evaluation of the ANC's first term of office, 1994-1999 / Stephen Greenberg -- Stillborn in Harare : attempts to privatize water in a city in crisis / Rekopantse Mate -- "There is still no alternative" : fixing failed privatization with more privatization : the case of Lusaka / Karen Cocq -- Water privatization in Namibia : creating a new apartheid? / Labour Resource and Research Institute -- The new face of conditionalities : the World Bank and water privatization in Ghana / Rudolf Amenga-Etego and Sara Grusky.
- Call Number
- JBE 06-637
- ISBN
- 1844071340 (pbk.)
- 1844071359 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2004022851
- OCLC
- 56615908
- Author
- McDonald, David A. (David Alexander)
- Title
- The age of commodity : water privatization in Southern Africa / David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters.
- Imprint
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Ruiters, Greg, 1959-
- Research Call Number
- JBE 06-637