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Title:

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

Publisher:

Distributed by Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vii, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Privatization--Social aspects--Latin America.
Privatization--Latin America.
Privatisation--Aspect social--Amérique latine.
Privatisation--Amérique latine.
Privatização--América latina.
Privatização (aspectos ambientais)--América latina.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

Distributor from p. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Santiago Levy -- On the social effects of privatizations in Latin America / Alberto Chong -- Water expansion in shantytowns : health and savings / Sebastián Galiani, Martín González-Rozada, Ernesto Schargrodsky -- The impact of electricity sector privatization on public health / Martín González-Eiras, Martín A. Rossi -- Water sector privatization in Colombia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Mauricio Olivera -- Stay public or go private? : a comparative analysis of water services between Quito and Guayaquil / Paul Carrillo, Orazio Bellettini, Elizabeth Coombs -- Access to telephone services and household income in poor rural areas using a quasi-natural experiment in Peru / Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo, Máximo Torero -- Learning from an incomplete electricity privatization process in rural Peru / Lorena Alcázar, Eduardo Nakasone, Máximo Torero.

ISBN:

1597820601 (pbk.)
9781597820608 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)178130369

LCCN:

2007940419

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Dunn Library (Indianola)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)     ** Lending Suspended

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)