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Attempting the Production of Public Goods Through Microfinance: The Case of Water and Sanitation
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 2560575
Author(s) Mader, Philip
Author(s) at UniBasel Mader, Philip
Year 2011
Title Attempting the Production of Public Goods Through Microfinance: The Case of Water and Sanitation
Journal Journal of Infrastructure Development
Volume 3
Number 2
Pages / Article-Number 1153-+
Abstract This article critically evaluates attempts to create public goods via microfinance loans in reference to the specific example of water and sanitation. The microfinancing of water and sanitation is a private business model which requires households to privately recognise, internalise and capitalise the bene-fits from improved water and sanitation. But household water and sanitation, being closely linked to underlying common pool resources, and being merit goods, have strong public goods characteristics and therefore depend on collective solutions. Two cases, from Vietnam and India, are presented and evaluated. Despite their dissimilar settings and designs, evidence is found that both projects encountered similar and comparable problems at the collective level which individual microfinance loans could not address. The problems encountered warn against an emergent micro-privatisation of water and sanitation through microfinance.
Publisher SAGE
ISSN/ISBN 0974-9306 ; 0975-5969
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/50202/
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1177/097493061100300204
ISI-Number WOS:000319952800009
Document type (ISI) Proceedings Paper
 
   

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