Service delivery and regulatory mobilization at the edge of the regulatory state
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2011
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The paper examines how water service provisioning is dominated by local and sectoral political and economic elites in Metro Manila (Philippines). The inability and/or unwillingness of privatized water utilities to provide direct service delivery to the urban poor has reaffirmed the importance of the informal sector in small-scale water provisioning. In the Philippines, informal water vendors exist within an ‘archipelagic’ regulatory space that is both informally and formally regulated, locally legitimatized, and sometimes straddle the boundaries of legality.
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INFORMAL SECTOR, DRINKING WATER, ACCESS TO WATER, WATER MANAGEMENT, URBAN POOR, REGULATION, PUBLIC UTILITIES, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, MUNICIPALITIES, GOVERNANCE, PHILIPPINES, FAR EAST ASIA