03307oam 22006735 450 991078345420332120200520144314.01-280-23829-197866102382930-8213-6343-310.1596/978-0-8213-6342-3(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(The World Bank)2005050780(US-djbf)14016570(EXLCZ)99100000000022512320050627d2005 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWater, electricity, and the poor : who benefits from utility subsidies? /Kristin Komives ... [and others] ; with support from Roohi AbdullahWashington, DC :World Bank,[2005]copyright 2005.xvii, 283 pages illustrations ;23 cmDirections in developmentDescription 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.)World Bank e-Library.Public utilitiesRatesDeveloping countriesSubsidiesDeveloping countriesPublic utilitiesRatesSubsidies333.71/58/091724Komives Kristin1483040World Bank.DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910783454203321Water, electricity, and the poor3701035UNINA