Access by the Poor in Latin America's Utility Reform: Subsidies and Service Obligations

Omar Chisari, Antonio Estache and Catherine Waddams Price

No DP2001-75, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Any infrastructure reformers concerned with social issues in a developing country need to address two problems. The first is increasing access by the poor, and the second is ensuring consumption affordability, i.e. the ability of the poor to pay for both consumption and the amortization of the access charges. The two are related. The main concern of both policy makers and academics has been to identify options to cut costs so that coverage can be accelerated, focusing on cheaper technologies or on various financing/lending schemes.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Infrastructure (Economics); Public utilities; Subsidies; Trade regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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