Private provision of rural infrastructure services
Subtitle: competing for subsidies
By: Vivien Foster, Christina Malmberg-Calvo, and Bjorn Wellenius.
Contributors: Calvo, Christina Malmberg, 1958-; Wellenius, Bjorn.; World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 3365; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 3365.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics) -- Developing countries.; Subsidies -- Developing countries.; Developing countries -- Rural conditions.
Description: "Market-oriented reforms of infrastructure in developing countries tend to focus primarily on commercially viable services in urban areas.  Nevertheless, an increasing number of countries are beginning to experiment with extending the market paradigm to infrastructure services in rural areas that are often less attractive in commercial terms.  In these cases, subsidies are used to close the gap between market requirements and development needs, and are increasingly determined and allocated on a competitive basis.  The authors discuss the conditions under which competition among firms for such subsidies successfully used in the telecommunications sector in a number of middle-income countriescould also be applied to electricity, water and sanitation, and transportation services in lower-income countries.  This paper is a product of the Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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