Title: Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services
First published: 2009
Description: "This paper reviews the progress made in the literature toward defining and measuring the affordability of utilities.  It highlights the relative merits of alternate affordability metrics; the practical challenges to their operationalization, including the underlying data requirements; and their implications for the design, evaluation, and implementation of appropriate affordability programs.   "--World Bank web site.
Subjects: Public utilities
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57