Análise comparativa entre provedores públicos e privados de serviços de água e esgoto no Brasil em 2015

Abstract

This research compares the performance of public and private companies in the provision of basic sanitation services in Brazil, by carrying out the empirical analysis by estimating Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), considering a sample of 5.027 municipalities, for the year 2015, the last period with data provided by the Sistema Nacional de Informações sobre Saneamento (SNIS). The results indicate that there is no ideal model for the provision of sanitation services, and it is not possible to say that private companies provide better services than public ones, or the other way around. The understanding of the activities of these companies is of fundamental importance for the development of a plan capable of overcoming the existing deficiencies in the sector.