Privatisation in Brazil
- From: Vol 3, Issue 6 (June 2002)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: Brazil
- Related Companies: Azurix, Berlinwasser, Dragados, Iberdrola, Thames Water and Veolia Environnement (formerly Vivendi Environnement)
Basic sanitation is one of the last major sectors to remain mostly in public hands following Brazil’s extensive 10-year programme to privatise its state assets (see main text).
Thames Water, Vivendi, Ondeo, Iberdrola, Berliner Wasser, Dragados and the now defunct Azurix, could all therefore be forgiven for their expectation that the sale of water company assets would proceed in the late 1990s.
All seven companies were reported to be interested in Brazil’s large state water companies, most notably Bahia state’s Embasa and Pernambuco’s Compesa valued ...
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