Accounting for poverty in infrastructure reform : learning from Latin America's experience / / Antonio Estache, Vivien Foster, Quentin Wodon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958704303321
• Autore: Estache Antonio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2001
• ISBN: 1-280-08768-4; 9786610087686; 0-585-41219-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 122 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm
• Collana: WBI development studies
• Altri autori (Persone): FosterVivien <1968->; WodonQuentin
• Disciplina: 363/.098
• Soggetti: Public utilities - Latin America; Poverty - Latin America; Privatization - Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Investment and Reform Needs -- Competition Rules and Regulatory Design -- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Linkages between Infrastructure Reforms and Poverty -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Microeconomic Linkages -- Policy Implications -- Promoting Access -- Trends in Access Rates -- Time Frame of Benefits -- Who Has Gained Access? -- Instruments to Improve or Facilitate Access -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix 3.1. Access to Electricity, Water, and Telephone, by Country, Selected Years, 1986-96 -- Appendix 3.1. (continued) -- Appendix 3.2. Sector-Specific Access Rates by Income Deciles for Latin America, 1986- 96 -- Appendix 3.2. (continued) -- Ensuring Consumption Affordability -- Impact of Infrastructure Reform -- Improving Consumption Affordability for the Poorest -- Reducing the Costs of Service -- Facilitating Payment -- Targeting an Instrument -- Concluding Comments -- Establishing Priorities -- Diagnostic Tools for Access -- Diagnostic Tools for Affordability -- Setting Access and Affordability Priorities -- Setting ; Infrastructure Sector Priorities -- The Decision Tree -- General Policy Guidelines to Protect the Poor -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix 5.1. Access to Electricity and Water by Income Decile, Selected Countries and Years -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The study explores the link between infrastructure reform and poverty observed in Latin America. It details why infrastructure investment is likely to continue to be a core component of many poverty alleviation programs. The study also stresses why and how, in most countries, infrastructure reform aimed at promoting private financing of investment needs, must be designed in ways in which poverty concerns are taken into account. It provides practical guidelines and options to ensure that the critical needs for additional infrastructure investments are met and that the strategies to address the needs of the poor are as cost effective as possible.