Despite accumulating evidence on the benefits of investing in every component of the sanitation value chain, the entire sector does not attract sufficient resources.
The sanitation value chain extends from demand generation to collection, transport, treatment and disposal/reuse. Every one of these stages can be considered a separate "sanitation market", one with different stakeholders who demand and provide services. In developing countries these sanitation markets don't always operate efficiently, affecting both the quantity and quality of goods and services. This incapacity to deliver can be attributed to a set of market failures. This paper investigates how economic analysis can help identify the market failures which exist in sanitation markets and suggests potential interventions to make these sanitation markets work better.
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http://shareresearch.org/LocalResources/SHARE_sanitation_markets_pathfinder_Dec_2012.pdf
The sanitation value chain extends from demand generation to collection, transport, treatment and disposal/reuse. Every one of these stages can be considered a separate "sanitation market", one with different stakeholders who demand and provide services. In developing countries these sanitation markets don't always operate efficiently, affecting both the quantity and quality of goods and services. This incapacity to deliver can be attributed to a set of market failures. This paper investigates how economic analysis can help identify the market failures which exist in sanitation markets and suggests potential interventions to make these sanitation markets work better.
Read on..
http://shareresearch.org/LocalResources/SHARE_sanitation_markets_pathfinder_Dec_2012.pdf