Informality as Experimentation: Water Utilities' Strategies for Cost Recovery and their Consequences for Universal Access.
This paper considers the modalities by which utilities in four sub-Saharan African cities have extended water services into low-income settlements and examines their consequences for household access to water. We argue that water utilities and other public agencies supplying water are experimenting,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 259 - 278 |
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