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| Author: | Thornton, E. |
| Title: | Problematic panacea |
| Journal: | Far Eastern Economic Review
1997 : VOL. 160:1, p. 126-128 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS ASIA REVIEW |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Build-operate-transfer deals remain stalled across Asia. In 1990, the Indonesian government faced a problem: it could not afford to build enough wells and water-treatment plants to provide ample drinking water to its rapidly growing population. The solution , Jakarta decided, lay in the private sector. Companies were invited to build the water supply infrastructure, operate it long enough to make a profit on their investment, and then hand it to the government -- for free, reports Emily Thornton in New Delhi. |
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