Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45660
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Development Research Working Paper Series No. 03/2010
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), La Paz
Abstract: 
After the 2000 Water-War, access to water in Bolivia has become a major social demand and thus a prime and contentious political issue. The event has revealed an overwhelming opposition to neo-liberal approaches to water management and has allowed the articulation of a new discourse that sees water not as an economic resource but as a human right. In this context, the paper reviews the two contrasting positions within the debate about whether or not water should be treated as an economic resource. In doing so, it presents the arguments underpinning each position which then allows the elaboration of some relevant conclusions.
Subjects: 
Value of water
Bolivia
economic resource
water-war
market value
indigenous knowledge
cultural value
JEL: 
Q20
Q25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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