Corruption in Public Service Delivery: Experience from South Asia's Water and Sanitation Sector

By Jennifer Davis. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• An untold story of policy failure: the Total Sanitation Campaign in India (2013, background): “The sophistication and pervasiveness of corrupt behaviour in South Asian water and sanitation programmes are widely recognized (Davis, 2004), and the TSC is not an exception.”
• Financial development, political rights, civil liberties and economic growth: evidence from South Asia (2012, background): “The issue of corruption in South Asia's service delivery sector has been considered by Davis (2004).”
• Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries (2009, background): “Similarly, Davis (2004) suggests that unaccounted for water accounts for 35 per cent of total flows in India.”
• Privatisation Results: Private Sector Participation in Water Services After 15 Years (2006, background): “There has been bribery, corruption (Davis, 2004), non-compliance with contractual agreements, lay-offs, tariff increases, and environmental pollution. ‘Sign and renegotiate’ is the order of the day, and the World Bank has even published a manual on how to renegotiate a failed concession contract (Gu”
• Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Water Access in Rural Areas of Low and Middle Income Countries (2019, background): “There are several studies within the economic literature that link the problems of governability with access to water [8,17,29,30].”
• Measuring and reducing the impact of corruption in infrastructure (2006, background): “Davis (2004) suggests that unaccounted for water accounts for 35 percent of total flows in India.”