Private sector involvement in urban solid waste collection

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The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise. However, these benefits are most often not achieved in developing countries due to investment risk of private finance, and problems of capacity and regulation of the private sector. This book examines private sector involvement (PSI) in solid waste collection by exploring the influence of private sector capacity and Local Gov…

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Full title :Private sector involvement in urban solid waste collection / Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CRC press/Balkema
Place of Publication:Leiden, the Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Subtitle on cover: Performance, capacity and regulation in five cities in Ghana.

Vita.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 349 pages) : : color illustrations, color maps

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ISBN:9781466552814, 1466552816
oclc:ocn780083586
LC Classification:TD789.G4
Dewey Decimal:363.728

1. Evolving management of urban solid waste services -- 2. Institutional and regulatory context of solid waste management in Ghana -- 3. Theoretical framework of private sector involvement in solid waste service provision -- 4. Research methodology -- 5. Evolving practices of involving private sector and households in service provision -- 6. Private sector performance : productivity and service quality in solid waste collection -- 7. Private sector capacity : scale of operations and capability of companies -- 8. Regulation of private sector involvement in solid waste collection -- 9. Conclusions and implications.

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