Effectiveness and efficiency of urban water access in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A panel directional approach

Data envelopment analysis; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Luenberger indicator; Water access; Geography, Planning and Development; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Abstract :

[en] In the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations, countries are committed to achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a paradox as it owns the second-largest basin in the world while more than half of the population has no access to basic drinking water. This fact is our starting point to conduct a performance evaluation exercise of the 11 provinces from 2008 to 2019. Our approach has five distinguished features: we take account of population trends; we use a tailored and complete database of urban centres; we define and decompose flexible indicators, and we use a non-parametric estimation method. Our results show that there is inefficiency and ineffectiveness in urban water access. Overall, larger efficiency–effectiveness differences are over time observed mostly due to a lack of technological change and a resource constraint. We also highlight the role of public policies.

Disciplines :

Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

Mwaku, Jeannine; HEC Liége, Université de Liége, Belgium

Perelman, Sergio ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Ecole de Gestion de l'Université de Liège

Walheer, Barnabé ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Economie : Microéconométrie et économétrie appliquée

Mapapa, Mbangala; Institut Supérieur de Commerce de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo

Language :

English

Title :

Effectiveness and efficiency of urban water access in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A panel directional approach

Publication date :

October 2024

Journal title :

Environmental Science and Policy

ISSN :

1462-9011

eISSN :

1873-6416

Publisher :

Elsevier Ltd

Volume :

160

Pages :

103837

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S1462901124001710?httpAccept=text/xml

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

Funding text :

This work is supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) under Grant No. J.0193.23The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Barnabe Walheer reports financial support was provided by University of Liege.

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