Sharp increases in population growth globally are stretching local governments tasked with providing services to their constituents. How can municipalities pay for this dramatic increase in service and the infrastructure needed to attract new businesses and spark local economic development? By first maximizing the amount of money they can legally […]
Michael Ashford, Lance Morrell, and Owen Scott provide a three-step approach for donors to recommit themselves to support governments, due to a large financing gap in causes that address water and sanitation needs in low- and middle-income countries. The international development community must more effectively use limited concessional financing to […]
If the private sector has the capital needed to expand and improve the performance of the WASH sector, why haven’t governments been able to access it? How do we crowd-in the private sector? Lance Morrell and Michael Ashford discuss crowding-in commercial financing to water supply and sanitation utilities in a […]