Document Abstract
Published:
2002
Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy
The World Bank's water strategy: reveals a fixation with privatisation?
This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy. The article suggests that the strategy's limitations stem from the organisation's misplaced faith in the private sector.
The article finds that the strategy:
- fails to reflect reality or to learn from international experience
- does not properly consider the full range of alternatives
- represents a rigid one-sided, one-size-fits-all approach
- reiterates the World Bank's fixation with privatisation
