Services sector

May 2009

Local experiments in public reform are more democratic and cost-effective than the government's centralised bailouts

May 2007

As the World Bank agency, the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) met in the Hague on 23-24 May, hundreds of civil society representatives called on donors to reject the Facility's role in promoting water privatisation and fund public alternatives instead.

May 2007 Eurotopia No. 4

The future of public services is the subject of conflict in Europe. Believers in privatisation and liberalization stand face to face with those that see the risks. Eurotopia Issue 4 goes into examples of failure and offers a look at successful alternatives to privatisation.

March 2007

This yearbook proves that privatisation is not inevitable; that we can and must react to protect, preserve and reclaim our public service inheritance. It is clear that without extensive, universally distributed public services, there is no way the world can realise the United Nation's Millennium...

January 2007

The book presents twenty examples of successful public water delivery in large and small, wealthy and poor municipalities across Brazil.

August 2006 Contribution from Susan George
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