About the editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization -- State of the debate -- Corporatization in historical perspective -- Neoliberal corporatization -- A progressive future? -- Research methods -- Table 1.1 List of case studies -- Table 1.2 Criteria used to evaluate corporatization -- Notes -- References -- 2 An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica's ICE -- An atypical social democracy -- The evolution of electricity services in Costa Rica -- ICE's track record -- Table 2.1 Current situation of the Costa Rican electricity sector vis-à-vis countries that have adopted market reforms -- Figure 2.1 Electricity access in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Figure 2.2 Average price of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Table 2.2 Costa Rica's installed generating capacity and power generation per source -- Liberalization and corporatization of ICE -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience -- Neoliberal macro-reforms and foreign aid -- Millennium Challenges -- Decentralization -- Rural-urban divides -- History of ONEA -- ONEA today -- Figure 3.1 Water prices in selected African countries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 An 'Arab Spring' for corporatization? Tunisia's national electricity company (STEG) -- History of STEG -- Contractualization = corporatization -- Assessing STEG's performance -- After the revolution -- Reflections and lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- 5 Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay -- OSE in regional context -- Table 5.1 Average annual investment per capita in selected Latin American countries in water supply and sanitation -- History of OSE.

A model public water company -- Corporatization: blurring the public-private divide -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Interviews -- 6 Can 'public' survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia -- Table 6.1 The 'standard menu' for electricity reform -- The Malaysian policy context -- Table 6.2 OPP target ownership of share capital in companies, peninsular Malaysia, 1970-90 -- Table 6.3 Comparative GDP per capita (2000 US) and poverty performance -- The corporatization of TNB -- Table 6.4 Electricity sector performance in selected Asian countries, 1987 -- Figure 6.1 Structure of authorities in the electricity sector in Malaysia -- Post-corporatization performance -- Table 6.5 TNB summary of financial performance, 2007-12 -- Table 6.6 Comparative electricity prices, ASEAN-4 -- Figure 6.2 Power sector reform proposals as applied to Tenaga's current structure -- Table 6.7 Emerging power sector reform proposals -- Lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- 7 Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines -- A brief history of water services in the Philippines -- Table 7.1 Philippine water utilities by type of management model -- The (confused) corporate personality of water districts -- LMWD's corporate personality -- Lessons learned -- Note -- References -- 8 Corporatization in the European water sector: lessons for the global South -- Analytical framework -- A brief history of corporatization in the EU -- Advantages of corporatization in the EU -- Problems with corporatization in the EU -- Can corporatization strengthen public services? -- Lessons for the global South -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Corporatization is dead … long live corporatization? -- Progressive corporatization? -- Re-aggregation -- References -- About the contributors -- Index.