Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (Directions in Development (Washington, D.C.))

by Quentin Wodon (Author), Vivien Foster (Author), Jonathan Halpern (Author), Kristin Komives (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2005

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  Assesses and promotes cost effective approaches to the financing and provision of infrastructure services to the poor in developing countries. This book brings together evidence on subsidy performance across a range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, and provides a typology of the variants found in those countries.