Water Management in France: Delegation and Market Based Auto‐regulation

Clark, Ephraim; Mondello, Gérard

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“…Water crises in the west are not as much problems of scarcity as they are problems of management (Clark and Mondello, 2003, p. 1551). In contrast, in sub‐Saharan Africa demand for safe drinking water, the most basic and essential of resources, far outstrips supply, and this is largely because of the chronic fiscal crises that these countries are experiencing (Karikari, 1996; Minister for Works and Housing, Ghanaian Chronicle , 2002).…”

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Accounting and the move to privatize water services in Africa

Rahaman

Everett

Neu

2007

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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PurposeUsing the recent attempts by the Ghanaian Government to privatize its urban water services, this paper seeks to understand the role and functioning of accounting within the global move to “reinvent government.”Design/methodology/approachUnlike the attempts made in other African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania, the case of Ghana is interesting because of the vociferousness and length of the debate that has been going on. Using Bourdieu's notion of field and capital and Foucault's idea of governmentality, and relying on a variety of archival documents and interviews with 27 key participants, the study examines the positioning of accounting practices, vocabulary and experts in this debate.FindingsThe study shows how accounting is enlisted at an almost sub‐conscious level, how its use can engender significant resistance and how accounting can be used to position the debate in various terms, including “profitability” “affordability” and “accountability.”Research limitations/implicationsThe paper shows that within new democracies such as Ghana policy‐making requires the enlistment of technologies of government – including accounting – to articulate and justify divergent policy options.Practical implicationsThe findings of the paper have implications for regional policy‐makers and their various development partners.Originality/valueResearchers and practitioners working in the area of public sector management and reforms should find significant value in the paper.

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Accounting and the move to privatize water services in Africa

Rahaman

Everett

Neu

2007

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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“…Externalities and social aspects lead to take an interest in issues of equity, efficiency and liability (Boyer et al 1999;Clark and Mondello 2003).…”

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Emergence of an innovative regulation mode in water utilities in France: between commission regulation and franchise bidding

Guérin-Schneider

Nakhla²

2010

Eur J Law Econ

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International audienceAcademic debate on public utility regulation has considerably evolved over the past 50 years. The conflict between the supporters of franchise regulation and commission regulation has given way to much more balanced in-depth analyses. Regulation is defined on the basis of its structure but also its scope and regulation incentives. A regulation mode must above all be evaluated with regard to the institutional environment. We propose a neo-institutionally-inspired analysis framework and show how the dynamic relationship between regulation and the institutional environment can lead to reforms and ultimately to more efficient regulation. The findings of a French water utility sector analysis underline how a series of national normative reforms and local exploratory reforms can give rise to innovations in the regulation mode. This new hybrid regulation, between commission regulation and franchise bidding, could be more effective than previous regulation mode, i.e. more stable and in line with stakeholders’ expectations

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Dynamic Uncertainty and the Pricing of Natural Monopolies: The Case of Urban Water Management

Clark¹,

Mondello

2006

Frontiers in Water Resource Economics

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Water Management in France: Delegation and Market Based Auto‐regulation

Cited by 4 publications

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Accounting and the move to privatize water services in Africa

Accounting and the move to privatize water services in Africa

Emergence of an innovative regulation mode in water utilities in France: between commission regulation and franchise bidding

Dynamic Uncertainty and the Pricing of Natural Monopolies: The Case of Urban Water Management

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