Simon Lord
For many of the recent behavior of Massimo D'Alema, recently rejected the appointment of European Foreign Minister (and the next Tuesday, new chairman of the
Parliamentary Security of the Republic, COPAS), and Nichi Vendola, former governor of Puglia and spokesman of the Left Ecology Freedom, looks like yet another unjustified political hara-kiri, that makes the art of disagreement the real Achilles' heel of PD. Yet, on closer inspection, the matter may not be as irrelevant. Although D'Alema
belies the suggestion "mess" that would lead to an alliance Puglia PD-UDC in the name of Francesco Boccia, there are many signs that lead to considerations in the opposite direction. In short, to quote Andreotti, "to think evil is a sin, but we often guesses."
It so happens that in fact the father of Pier Ferdinando Casini is the entrepreneur Gaetano Caltagirone, the tenth richest man in Italy, which owns 7.5% ACEA SpA (Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente), which has already has long focused his eyes on the aqueduct Puglia by the actions of its CEO, Marco Staderini, former Lottomatica Board of Directors and former RAI, also linked by close friendship with Casini. To reinforce the chain of relationships are Péruzy Andrea, director of ACEA on behalf of shareholders and secretary general of the French Suez dalemiana Italianieuropei Foundation. These ties are reflected in glove in the choice of object to Vendola economist Francesco Boccia (ed Bocconi MBA), already defeated by Vendola in 2005 to just over 1200 votes.
In an interview with a journalist from La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "Boccia said fact that" If the water (was) the public, the Region (...) should give it free to all and, instead, in Puglia you pay higher fares. For this I am for the nationalization of companies holding the assets of the major utilities, but no management: demand that the families of the San Paolo di Bari (ed class neighborhood with high unemployment and petty crime) wealthy do not pay anything and as Vendola me and pay more. And to do so, you must open the doors of the competition between private management, while preserving the majority publicly owned ".
Vendola, for its part, has always claimed the need to maintain the water service in the hands of the public : "We will not allow an expropriation of property and that 'a source of pride, a pride. The Apulian Aqueduct and 'a great public good, the water that' citizens and 'a universal right. We will get across, we will do with all our strength against each design to give to some French or American multinational public goods such as Puglia. Vendola Against the will of the Ronchi Decree, however, is part of last November, which establishes the expectations of the management of water services to the private sector by 2011.
and then began the war of gold Blue?
Although the intentions expressed by Boccia are more than commendable, several studies on the transition from public management to private management of Water Utilities have produced little results rewarding. The most striking are Ghana, where the PPP (Public Private Partnership ) founded by the government and some corporations have doubled the cost of water, until you get to be a tenth of the average daily gain, even in Cochabamba, Bolivia After the advent of the consortium Aguas del Tunari (including U.S. Bechtel and Italy's Edison ) prices increased by 20% -30% to be a quarter of monthly income. The cities of Cancun, Saltillo, and Aguas Calientes in Mexico have a different history in which the constant is an indiscriminate increase in prices (from 32% -68% or more) and even the bankruptcy risk of firms (such as France's Vivendi , which in Aguas Calientes at risk of bankruptcy in 1994, only to renegotiate government contract with a thirty year even more profitable).
Approaching a bit ', we find the two cases documented by Report (which I recommend everyone to see: http://bit.ly/8NSf6G ) Arezzo (with the French multinational Suez ), where prices have doubled for the first time with the advent of private service and a second due to the fraudulent 1:1 exchange with the euro, or Aprilia SpA Acqualatina (which includes just the ACEA), which documented increases from 50% to 3300% (33 times as much!), with the birth of a group of 5000 and more citizens who refuse to pay bills risk of being exposed to the physically close the taps.
short, caution is needed when it approaches the discourse of water privatization: it is clear that since this is a market that appears to be a natural monopoly (due to the presence of high entry costs and huge economies of scale and purpose), the transition from political price to monopoly price inevitably leads to an increase in the price level, and though it can be opposed by a regulatory efficiency, are not excludable side effects. This is demonstrated by the case of AQP , the SpA which operates the Aqueduct own Pugliese, who has refused to invest in its infrastructure after it was stopped trying to touch up upwards of 10% of its prices. It would also increase the business risk as it tells the news that has always AQP risked losing € 250 million in bonds Ford, Chrysler and General Motors in the warm months of the crisis.
is true, the effects were mixed, and explains how a study commissioned in 2007 by the rather optimistic The nter-American Development Bank and carried out on Colombian territory, the privatization of the port to secure a price increase only for the last quintile (ie 20% of the population ordered by income, ie the poorest), while the other is to anticipate the result. And there seems to glimpse a philosophy attributed to joke played masterfully by Ettore Petrolini: "You have to take the money where it is: at the poor. They have little but are so many ".
For many of the recent behavior of Massimo D'Alema, recently rejected the appointment of European Foreign Minister (and the next Tuesday, new chairman of the belies the suggestion "mess" that would lead to an alliance Puglia PD-UDC in the name of Francesco Boccia, there are many signs that lead to considerations in the opposite direction. In short, to quote Andreotti, "to think evil is a sin, but we often guesses."
It so happens that in fact the father of Pier Ferdinando Casini is the entrepreneur Gaetano Caltagirone, the tenth richest man in Italy, which owns 7.5% ACEA SpA (Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente), which has already has long focused his eyes on the aqueduct Puglia by the actions of its CEO, Marco Staderini, former Lottomatica Board of Directors and former RAI, also linked by close friendship with Casini. To reinforce the chain of relationships are Péruzy Andrea, director of ACEA on behalf of shareholders and secretary general of the French Suez dalemiana Italianieuropei Foundation. These ties are reflected in glove in the choice of object to Vendola economist Francesco Boccia (ed Bocconi MBA), already defeated by Vendola in 2005 to just over 1200 votes.
In an interview with a journalist from La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "Boccia said fact that" If the water (was) the public, the Region (...) should give it free to all and, instead, in Puglia you pay higher fares. For this I am for the nationalization of companies holding the assets of the major utilities, but no management: demand that the families of the San Paolo di Bari (ed class neighborhood with high unemployment and petty crime) wealthy do not pay anything and as Vendola me and pay more. And to do so, you must open the doors of the competition between private management, while preserving the majority publicly owned ".
Vendola, for its part, has always claimed the need to maintain the water service in the hands of the public : "We will not allow an expropriation of property and that 'a source of pride, a pride. The Apulian Aqueduct and 'a great public good, the water that' citizens and 'a universal right. We will get across, we will do with all our strength against each design to give to some French or American multinational public goods such as Puglia. Vendola Against the will of the Ronchi Decree, however, is part of last November, which establishes the expectations of the management of water services to the private sector by 2011.
and then began the war of gold Blue?
Although the intentions expressed by Boccia are more than commendable, several studies on the transition from public management to private management of Water Utilities have produced little results rewarding. The most striking are Ghana, where the PPP (Public Private Partnership ) founded by the government and some corporations have doubled the cost of water, until you get to be a tenth of the average daily gain, even in Cochabamba, Bolivia After the advent of the consortium Aguas del Tunari (including U.S. Bechtel and Italy's Edison ) prices increased by 20% -30% to be a quarter of monthly income. The cities of Cancun, Saltillo, and Aguas Calientes in Mexico have a different history in which the constant is an indiscriminate increase in prices (from 32% -68% or more) and even the bankruptcy risk of firms (such as France's Vivendi , which in Aguas Calientes at risk of bankruptcy in 1994, only to renegotiate government contract with a thirty year even more profitable).
Approaching a bit ', we find the two cases documented by Report (which I recommend everyone to see: http://bit.ly/8NSf6G ) Arezzo (with the French multinational Suez ), where prices have doubled for the first time with the advent of private service and a second due to the fraudulent 1:1 exchange with the euro, or Aprilia SpA Acqualatina (which includes just the ACEA), which documented increases from 50% to 3300% (33 times as much!), with the birth of a group of 5000 and more citizens who refuse to pay bills risk of being exposed to the physically close the taps.
short, caution is needed when it approaches the discourse of water privatization: it is clear that since this is a market that appears to be a natural monopoly (due to the presence of high entry costs and huge economies of scale and purpose), the transition from political price to monopoly price inevitably leads to an increase in the price level, and though it can be opposed by a regulatory efficiency, are not excludable side effects. This is demonstrated by the case of AQP , the SpA which operates the Aqueduct own Pugliese, who has refused to invest in its infrastructure after it was stopped trying to touch up upwards of 10% of its prices. It would also increase the business risk as it tells the news that has always AQP risked losing € 250 million in bonds Ford, Chrysler and General Motors in the warm months of the crisis.
is true, the effects were mixed, and explains how a study commissioned in 2007 by the rather optimistic The nter-American Development Bank and carried out on Colombian territory, the privatization of the port to secure a price increase only for the last quintile (ie 20% of the population ordered by income, ie the poorest), while the other is to anticipate the result. And there seems to glimpse a philosophy attributed to joke played masterfully by Ettore Petrolini: "You have to take the money where it is: at the poor. They have little but are so many ".
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