The map of public-private partnerships in sanitation in Brazil: a comparative analysis (2006-2017)

Abstract

The process of state reform, associated with the chronic fiscal crisis, has enabled new forms of insertion of the private sector in areas traditionally under state control. Recently, the Brazilian Department is betting on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to increase access to sanitary sewage service. The paper proposes to answer the following question: do PPPs in sanitary sewage present better results in relation to the public management of services? The objective of the present article is to analyze the behavior of these experiences in comparison to the cases of public management of the services from the index of total service of sewage and treated sewage index referring to the water consumed. Methodologically, descriptive statistics and T-tests were used for independent samples between groups. The results indicate that there is no substantive difference in the expansion of sanitary sewage services between public management and PPPs in the analyzed groups.