Saneamento básico no Brasil:limites e possibilidades de atuação do setor privado

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

Trying to extent the knowledge regarding the subject of the insert of the private investment in the water supply sector in Brazil and to subsidize the public policies in this field, this study presents the main aspects referring to the acting of the sector in the last years, evidencing the obstacles that the sector has been facing; it exposes the possibilities of private participation; and develops a comparative analyses to measure the efficiency between state-owned and private enterprises which operate in this sector. The aim is to detect possible differences on their resource allocation structures as well as on their levels of inputs utilization per unity of output. To overcome the obstacles to the private participation, as well as to improve the acting of public companies, it is necessary a significant evolution in the determination of the regulation of the sector, that involves tariff rules, establishment of the involved agents? rights and duties, readiness of information, definition of financing appropriate structure. Using appropriate econometric models, it was possible to quantify the biases of the capital-labor ratio and the production utilization levels of these inputs between these two groups of enterprises, as well as to verify the effect of such differences over their costs structure. The data show that there is a bias in the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vis-à-vis the private enterprises in the sense of a grater utilization of capital per unit of labor, as well as the SOEs present larger levels of resource employment (capital and labor) per unit of product as compared to those levels verified in the private enterprises. These inefficiencies were responsible for a significant increase in the SOEs costs relatively to the ones incurred by private enterprises

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saneamento básico ? bahia iniciativa privada eficiência alocativa allocative efficiency propriedade pública economia public and private ownership potable water supply technical efficiency

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