The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa

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David Alexander McDonald, Greg Ruiters
Earthscan, 2005 - 303 pages
In recent years as globalization and market liberalization have marched forward unabated, and the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly the flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than in southern Africa. The Age of Commodity provides an overview on the debates over water privatization including a conceptual overview of water 'privatization', how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and GATS and how the debates are shaped by research methodologies. The book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity and donor conditionalities. This is book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commodity.
 

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From Public to Private to Public Again?
1
Theory and Practice
10
Case Studies in South Africa
97
Case Studies in the Region
223
Stillborn in Harare Attempts to Privatize Water in a City in Crisis
224
There is Still No Alternative The Beginnings of Water Privatization in Lusaka
240
Water Privatization in Namibia Creating a New Apartheid?
258
The New Face of Conditionalities The World Bank and Water Privatization in Ghana
275
Index
293
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