# **Table of Contents**

|**1.**<br>**INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................... 5**|
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|**2.**<br>**Evaluating the Need for a Social Policy.................................................................. 7**|
|_Access.............................................................................................................................. 7_|
|_Affordability.................................................................................................................... 8_|
|_Summary ....................................................................................................................... 12_|
|**3.**<br>**Methodological Framework................................................................................... 13**|
|_Household Survey ......................................................................................................... 13_|
|_Measuring consumption................................................................................................ 13_|
|_Analytical tools ............................................................................................................. 14_|
|**4.**<br>**Evaluation of Existing Social Policies ................................................................... 18**|
|_Water and sewerage...................................................................................................... 18_|
|OSN Formula............................................................................................................ 18|
|SUMA Charge .......................................................................................................... 19<br>|
|Social Tariffs............................................................................................................. 21|
|_Electricity...................................................................................................................... 23_|
|Provinces................................................................................................................... 23|
|_Gas................................................................................................................................ 26_|
|_Subsidies to pensioners................................................................................................. 27_|
|_Metropolitan public transport....................................................................................... 27_|
|_Summary ....................................................................................................................... 29_|
|**5.**<br>**Simulation of Alternative Social Policies.............................................................. 31**|
|_Targeting mechanisms .................................................................................................. 31_|
|Consumption............................................................................................................. 31|
|Social programs ........................................................................................................ 32|
|Multi-dimensional proxies........................................................................................ 33|
|_Definition of subsistence consumption.......................................................................... 36_|
|Water......................................................................................................................... 36|