Publications

There are enormous inequalities in electricity access in Africa, with industry receiving abundant supplies of cheap power whereas the overwhelming majority of its populations remain off the power grid...

Critique and protests against private sector involvement in public water services have led to calls for the creation of ‘public-public partnerships’ (PUPs) as a mechanism for improving public services...

Women's lives and livelihoods are fundamentally shaped by basic resources such as health care, water and electricity. While much is known about the negative effects of privatization on women and girls...

This paper assesses the ideological arguments that sustain the belief that the private sector is more efficient than the public, which persist despite ambiguous empirical evidence. It argues that the...