Privatization for the Public Good?: Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5
FOREWORD......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
CHAPTER 1. On the Social Effects of Privatizations in Latin America......Page 13
Extent of Privatization and Its Effect on Efficiency......Page 16
Further Labor Effects of Privatizations......Page 22
The Role of Discrimination......Page 24
Distributive and Welfare Effects......Page 28
The Challenge for Governments: Regulation......Page 32
Conclusions......Page 34
CHAPTER 2. Water Expansion in Shantytowns: Health and Savings......Page 37
Water Privatization: The Case of Aguas Argentinas......Page 38
Expansion of Water in Shantytown Neighborhoods......Page 40
Sampling Design......Page 44
Estimation Strategy......Page 48
Results......Page 49
Conclusions......Page 52
CHAPTER 3. The Impact of Electricity Sector Privatization on Public Health......Page 55
Argentina\'s Electricity Reform......Page 56
Food Quality, Nutrition, and Public Health......Page 61
Impact of Electricity Privatization on Health in Argentina......Page 63
Data......Page 65
Results......Page 66
Conclusions......Page 74
CHAPTER 4. Water Sector Privatization in Colombia......Page 77
Water Privatization......Page 79
Hypotheses and Econometric Strategy......Page 87
Data......Page 92
Results......Page 101
Conclusions and Policy Recommendations......Page 107
CHAPTER 5. Stay Public or Go Private? A Comparative Analysis of Water Services between Quito and Guayaquil......Page 111
Background: Water Provision in Ecuador......Page 115
Measuring Changes in Water Services between Quito and Guayaquil......Page 120
Identifying the Effects of the Privatization of Water Services......Page 134
Conclusions......Page 148
CHAPTER 6. Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru......Page 151
Rural Telecommunications, Information, and Economic Outcomes......Page 153
Data......Page 155
Regression Analysis......Page 159
Propensity Scores Matching Methods......Page 168
Conclusions......Page 173
CHAPTER 7. Learning from an Incomplete Electricity Privatization Process in Rural Peru......Page 175
Overview of the Privatization of the Electric Sector in Peru and the Dynamics of Public and Private Operators......Page 177
Data......Page 191
Statistical and Econometric Methodology......Page 194
Empirical Results......Page 200
Conclusions......Page 208
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 217
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 241
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