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| Author: | Satoko Kishimoto et Olivier Petitjean |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Publisher: |
TNI, Multinationals Observatory, AK, EPSU, ISF Cataluña, PSI, PSIRU, We Own It, Fagforbundet, MSP and CUPE |
| Number of pages: | 237 |
| Available languages: | EN | ES |
| ISBN: | 9978-90-70563-58-5 |
| Available Formats: | PDF (EN) | PDF (ES) |
Abstract
Reclaiming Public Services is vital reading for anyone interested in the future of local, democratic services like energy, water, and health care. This is an in-depth world tour of new initiatives in public ownership and the variety of approaches to deprivatisation.
835 cities have brought essential services back under public control.
This newly released book, Reclaiming Public Services: How cities and citizens are turning back privatisation shows the wave of cities worldwide rejecting privatization is far bigger and more successful than anyone thought. This is an in-depth world tour of new initiatives in public ownership and a variety of approaches to de-privatization led at local and city levels. The research was conducted by eleven citizen organizations, researchers and trade unions who collected (re)municipalisation cases in a large number of countries over a period of eighteen months.
Privatization has been given ample chance to succeed and has come up short. The narrative that public services are by nature more expensive, inefficient and outdated is a myth. The book highlights examples which demonstrate that citizens and users do not have to resign to paying ever higher tariffs for services where standards are lower and service workers have fewer and fewer choices but to work in degraded conditions. For years, private companies have played a growing role in the provision of public services. But the remunicipalization movement, thoroughly documents in this new book, how cities and citizens are stepping up to protect and reinvent public services.
Chapters
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION: PUBLIC BANKS MATTER AT A TIME OF COVID-19
Diana Barrowclough, Thomas Marois and David A. McDonald
CHAPTER 2 - RECLAIMING PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT BANKS TO FINANCE A SUSTAINABLE AND EQUITABLE RECOVERY POST COVID-19
María José Romero
CHAPTER 3 - THE COVID-19 CRISIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK WITH THE FAILING GLOBAL MICROCREDIT INDUSTRY
Milford Bateman
CHAPTER 4 - CORONAVIRUS AND THE EVOLVING ROLES OF CENTRAL BANKS: AVOIDING A “CLIMATE MINSKY MOMENT”
Diana Barrowclough
CHAPTER 5 - THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE DEVELOPMENT BANK AND COVID-19
Oscar Reyes
CHAPTER 6 - THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK IN TIMES OF COVID-19
Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, David Howarth and Helen Kavvadia
CHAPTER 7 - THE KFW AND COVID-19: COORDINATING PUBLIC FINANCE RESPONSES AT HOME AND ABROAD
Thomas Marois
CHAPTER 8 - THE “BANK OF WELFARE” AND MEXICO’S MORAL ECONOMY
Nadine Reis
CHAPTER 9 - PUBLIC BANKS AND INDIA’S INEFFECTIVE COVID-19 CRISIS RESPONSE
C. P. Chandrasekhar
CHAPTER 10 - ARGENTINA’S COUNTERCYCLICAL CREDIT POLICY RESPONSE: MACROPRUDENTIAL REGULATION AND PUBLIC BANK CREDIT DURING COVID-19
Alfredo Schclarek Curutchet
CHAPTER 11 - NATIONAL AND MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS DURING THE 2020 PANDEMIC: THE ROLE OF IADB AND CDC DURING THE FIRST PHASE OF COVID-19
Marco Carreras and Stephany Griffith-Jones
CHAPTER 12 - THE ROLE OF PUBLIC CREDIT PROGRAMMES IN MITIGATING THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: BRAZIL’S EXPERIENCE
Alberto de Oliveira
CHAPTER 13 - THE PUBLIC BANKS AND PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA: CONFRONTING COVID-19 (IF NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY)
Godfrey Yeung
CHAPTER 14 - COVID-19 AND MEASURES TO SUPPORT ENTERPRISES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ITALY: THE ROLE OF CASSA DEPOSITI E PRESTITI
Daniela Vandone, Marco Frigerio, Carlotta Zatti and Dalya Bakry
CHAPTER 15 - PUBLIC BANKING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: PORTUGAL’S CAIXA GERAL DE DEPÓSITOS
Victoria Stadheim
CHAPTER 16 - TURKEY’S PUBLIC BANKS AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Ali Rıza Güngen
CHAPTER 17 - COVID-19 AND PUBLIC BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES: A MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY?
Ellen Brown
CHAPTER 18 - SOUTH-SOUTH PUBLIC FINANCE: A RAPID REVIEW OF COOPERATION AND RESILIENCE TO FACE COVID-19
Diana Barrowclough
Public Bank Association Statements
CHAPTER 19 - THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON AADFI MEMBERS
Association of African Development Finance Institutions
CHAPTER 20 - THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ADFIAP MEMBERS
Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific
CHAPTER 21 - EAPB STATEMENT ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC BANKS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS
European Association of Public Banks
CHAPTER 22 - RESPONSES OF LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANKS TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS PRECIPITATED BY COVID-19
Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions