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Title

Privatization for the public good? : welfare effects of private intervention in Latin America / Alberto Chong, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Inter-American Development Bank ; Cambridge, MA : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Sstudies, Harvard University, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Chong, Alberto.
• Inter-American Development Bank.
• David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Description

vii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

Privatization > Social aspects > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Santiago Levy -- Ch. 1. On the Social Effects of Privatizations in Latin America / Alberto Chong -- Ch. 2. Water Expansion in Shantytowns: Health and Savings / Sebastian Galiani, Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Ernesto Schargrodsky -- Ch. 3. The Impact of Electricity Sector Privatization on Public Health / Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Martin A. Rossi -- Ch. 4. Water Sector Privatization in Colombia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Mauricio Olivera -- Ch. 5. Stay Public or Go Private? A Comparative Analysis of Water Services between Quito and Guayaquil / Paul Carrillo, Orazio Bellettini and Elizabeth Coombs -- Ch. 6. Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru / Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo and Maximo Torero -- Ch. 7. Learning from an Incomplete Electricity Privatization Process in Rural Peru / Lorena Alcazar, Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero.

ISBN

• 9781597820608
• 1597820601

LCCN

40015511352

OCLC

• ocn178130369
• 178130369
• SCSB-9052548

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Columbia University Libraries