Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods

by LaDawn Haglund

Book Overview

The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts of the world, including developing countries. The record of the past twenty-five years of market-led development, however, has not been encouraging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037199
• ISBN13: 9780271037196
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"