Viewpoint - The Washington consensus, chilean water monopolization and the peruvian draft water law of the 1990s

Water Alternatives

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-217

  Solanes, Miguel ^a  

^a IMDEA WATER INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economics; Externalities; Markets; Monopolies; Rights; Water

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IDEOLOGY; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; MARKETING; PRIVATIZATION; SANITATION;

PERU; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84884957041     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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