Brazilian Sanitation Sector Dividend Policies and Concession Contracts, 2020-2025

50 concession contracts and 11 dividend distribution policies from Brazilian state sanitation companies, collected between July 2020 and August 2025. The dataset was created by Danilo Tavares da Silva to analyze the incorporation of legal restrictions on profit distribution following the 2020 sanitation law update. It includes variables on contract specifications, dividend limitation clauses, monitoring mechanisms, sanctions, and corporate guidelines.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of dividend limitation clauses based on contract specifications.
• Study mechanisms for monitoring contractual targets and schedules mentioned in the description.
• Assess corporate dividend distribution guidelines based on the collected institutional documents.
• Evaluate sanctions associated with non-compliance of contractual targets as described in the data.

Strengths

• Includes 50 concession contracts and 11 corporate dividend policies.
• Covers a defined time range from July 2020 to August 2025.
• Data collection involved public databases, government platforms, and freedom of information requests.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Empirical survey of public concession contracts and corporate policy documents.

Time Range

July 2020 to August 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 20:44:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil