03116nam 2200613Ia 450 991044970940332120200520144314.01-280-23829-197866102382930-8213-6343-3(CKB)1000000000225123(EBL)459550(OCoLC)62190990(SSID)ssj0000090161(PQKBManifestationID)11122228(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000090161(PQKBWorkID)10092414(PQKB)11116394(MiAaPQ)EBC459550(Au-PeEL)EBL459550(CaPaEBR)ebr10091277(CaONFJC)MIL23829(EXLCZ)99100000000022512320050627d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWater, electricity, and the poor[electronic resource] who benefits from utility subsidies? /Kristin Komives ... [et al.] ; with support from Roohi AbdullahWashington, DC World Bank20051 online resource (306 p.)Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-6342-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction; Tables; 2 A Typology of Consumer Utility Subsidies; Boxes; Figures; 3 The Rationale for Subsidizing Services for the Poor; 4 The Determinants of Targeting Performance: A Conceptual Framework; 5 The Targeting Performance of Quantity-Based Subsidies; 6 Can the Targeting Performance of Consumption Subsidies Be Improved?; 7 The Targeting Performance of Connection Subsidies; 8 Consumer Utility Subsidies as Instruments of Social Policy; 9 Beyond Subsidies-Other Means of Achieving Sectoral Goals; 10 ConclusionsAppendixesBibliography; Index"This book is an extremely thorough and readable review of how effective utility subsidies are in reaching the poor. It makes sobering reading for policy makers who have implemented such subsidy programmes, who are looking for ways to ameliorate heavy price increases, or who believed that these subsidies were useful instruments for alleviating poverty." - Catherine Waddams, Director, Center for Competition PolicySchool of Management, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom "This study makes a fine contribution, theoretical and empirical, in an area where much nonsense has been preached, and Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)Public utilitiesRatesDeveloping countriesSubsidiesDeveloping countriesElectronic books.Public utilitiesRatesSubsidies333.71/58/091724Komives Kristin879862MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910449709403321Water, electricity, and the poor1964708UNINA