Private Participation in the Water and Sewerage Sector--Recent Trends
Author: Gisele Silva, Nicola Tynan, and Yesim Yilmaz Date: 8/1/1998 (PDF, 200KB)
Analysis of the World Bank's private participation in infrastructure database shows that by the end of 1997 private companies operating in developing countries had reached financial closure on US$25 billion of investment in water and sewerage projects and had taken on the management, operations, rehabilitation, or construction risk of ninety-seven projects in thirty-five developing countries. The database shows an overwhelming dominance of concession contracts compared with divestitures, greenfield projects, and management contracts, and that there are still only a few international companies sponsoring and operating most contracts.