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Strengthening pro-poor targeting of investments by African utilities in urban water and sanitation - the role of the International Development Association of the World Bank: Case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania (2012)
Report
Bayliss, K., Newborne, P., & Tucker, J. (2012). Strengthening pro-poor targeting of investments by African utilities in urban water and sanitation - the role of the International Development Association of the World Bank: Case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania

This report for WaterAid presents findings from research into the impact of selected IDA-funded projects on water supply and sanitation services in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on the impact on poor areas and households... Read More about Strengthening pro-poor targeting of investments by African utilities in urban water and sanitation - the role of the International Development Association of the World Bank: Case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania.

Services and supply chains: The role of the domestic private sector in water service delivery in Tanzania (2011)
Report
Bayliss, K., & Tukai, R. (2011). Services and supply chains: The role of the domestic private sector in water service delivery in Tanzania

Private water vendors provide a means by which households without an individual piped connection to the utility network access water across tanzania’s capital city —dar es Salaam. Perhaps surprisingly, the most expensive water originates from a publi... Read More about Services and supply chains: The role of the domestic private sector in water service delivery in Tanzania.

Output-based Contracts in Small Town Water Supply in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bayliss, K., & Watasa, S. Output-based Contracts in Small Town Water Supply in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities

This report presents findings from a review of the role of the domestic private sector in the delivery of urban water in Uganda. It focuses on Private Operators (POs) in small towns. POs have been operating water systems in small towns under manageme... Read More about Output-based Contracts in Small Town Water Supply in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities.

A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation (2011)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K. (2011). A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation. In K. Bayliss, B. Fine, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. Pluto Press

This chapter considers the evidence in support of water privatisation and the relationship between this and advocacy and policy. The chapter discusses empirical research in this sector in terms of two phases 13 the first in the early 2000s when priv... Read More about A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation.

Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk? (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bayliss, K. Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk?. Brasilia, Brazil

Policies to promote privatisation in developing-country infrastructure gained momentum in the early 1990s as donors grew increasingly frustrated with efforts to strengthen public sector services that continued to fail. The strategy was intended to br... Read More about Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk?.