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  Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance: Economic and Political Pitfalls in the Case of Water and Sanitation

Mader, P. (2011). Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance: Economic and Political Pitfalls in the Case of Water and Sanitation. MPIfG Discussion Paper, 11/14.

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 Abstract: This paper critically assesses microfinance’s expansion into the provision of public goods. It focuses on the problem of public goods and collective action and refers to the specific example of water and sanitation. The microfinancing of water and sanitation is a private
business model which requires households to recognise, internalise and capitalise the benefits from improved water and sanitation. This requirement is not assured. Water and sanitation, being closely linked to underlying common-pool resources, are public goods which depend on collective governance solutions. They also have shifting public/private characteristics and are merit goods which depend on networks to enable provision to take place. Two cases, from Vietnam and India, are presented and evaluated. Despite their dissimilar settings and institutional designs, evidence is found that both projects
encountered similar and comparable problems at the collective level which individual microfinance loans could not address. The paper concludes that trying to make the poor pay for public goods runs into four pitfalls: politics, public capacity, values and equity.
 Abstract: Das Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen von Mikrofinanzierung auf öffentliche Güter und kollektives Handeln am Beispiel der Errichtung von Wasser- und Sanitäranlagen in Ländern der Dritten Welt. Das zugrunde liegende private Geschäftsmodell geht davon aus, dass Haushalte mittels Mikrokredite die Vorteile verbesserter Wasser- und Sanitäreinrichtungen erkennen und sich auch finanziell zunutze machen können – diese Voraussetzung ist allerdings nicht gegeben. Zudem sind Wasser- und Sanitärversorgung meritorische Güter, für deren Bereitstellung Netzwerke erforderlich sind. Sie erfordern
eine kollektive Verwaltung, weil sie sowohl öffentliche als auch private Merkmale aufweisen und mit Gemeinschaftsgütern eng verknüpft sind. Ausgangslage und institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen der beiden untersuchten Fallbeispiele in Vietnam und Indien sind unterschiedlich. Trotzdem geben die Ergebnisse der Studie Hinweise auf
vergleichbare Probleme auf der kollektiven Ebene, die nicht über Mikrofinanzierung lösbar sind. Es zeigt sich, dass der Versuch, die Armen zur Finanzierung öffentlicher
Güter zu bringen, an mehreren Hindernissen scheitert: an der lokalen Politik, einem unzureichend entwickelten öffentlichen Sektor, unterschiedlichen Wertvorstellungen
und mangelnder Verteilungsgerechtigkeit.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2011-12-14
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: IV, 38
 Publishing info: Köln : Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
 Table of Contents: 1 Introduction: Radicalised microfinance
2 Microfinance and the political economy of fragmented
entrepreneurial liberalism
From developmentalism to microfinance as “ersatz developmentalism”
Microfinance accumulation and crises
Microfinance meets water and sanitation: Past and present
3 Analytical framework: The public goods/collective action problematic in water and sanitation
Water and sanitation: Histories of inequality
Claiming the “win-win”: Recognition, internalisation, capitalisation
Problematic goods theory: Characterising a fluid resource
4 Field evidence from Vietnam and India
Can Tho, Vietnam
Andhra Pradesh, India
Lessons from two very different cases
5 Results and conclusions
Pitfalls at the collective level: Politics, public capacity, values and equity
General conclusion
References
 Rev. Type: Internal
 Identifiers: eDoc: 572283
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Title: MPIfG Discussion Paper
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Editor              
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 11/14 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: - Identifier: ISSN: 0944-2073
ISSN: 1864-4325