Privatization Revisited: Lessons from Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Gunatilake, Herath; Jose, Mary Jane F. Carangal–San | May 2008
Abstract
This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation, and exports in electronics firms in three late-industrializing developing countries (People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Philippines), drawing on recent developments in applied international trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm-level exporting behavior. The econometric results (using probit) confirm the importance of foreign ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers’ education, and capital also matter in the People’s Republic of China as well as accumulated experience in Thailand. Furthermore, a technology index composed of technical functions performed by firms emerges as a more robust indicator of innovation than the research and development to sales ratio. Accordingly, technological effort in electronics in these countries mostly focuses on assimilating and using imported technologies rather than formal research and development by specialized engineers.
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Gunatilake, Herath; Jose, Mary Jane F. Carangal–San. 2008. Privatization Revisited: Lessons from Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1770. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Access To Water
Available Water
Demand For Water
Drinking Water
Drinking Water And Sanitation
Freshwater
Groundwater Quality
Managing Water Resources
Financial & Private Sector Development
Private Sector
Private Sector Activities
Private Sector Analysis
Private Sector Assessments
Private Sector Development
Private Sector Investments
Private Sector Management
Private Sector Participation
Private Sector Projects
Sewage management
Waste Disposal
Sanitation services wastes
Water pollutants
Water storage
Private enterprises
Private ownership
Privatization
Fresh water
Underground water
Water quality management
Drinking water protection
Source water protection
Water-supply
Water harvesting
Water in agriculture
Integrated water development
Residential water consumption
Corporatization
Capitalism
Free markets
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