Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services

Ioannis Kessides, Raffaele Miniaci, Carlo Scarpa and Paola Valbonesi

No 4915, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Access to Finance; Economic Theory&Research; Town Water Supply and Sanitation; Public Sector Economics&Finance; Rural Poverty Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04-01
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