Pricing, Subsidies and the Poor
Auteur: Ian Walker
Nombre de pages: 23 pages
ISBN: ISBN non disponible
Edition: World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Sector Unit
Date de publication: World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Sector Unit
Description: Evidence from Central America's publicly owned and managed water supply companies indicates that the urban poor are ill served by current subsidy policies. The best way to improve water services for the urban poor, this study concludes, is for tariffs to reflect system costs and for consumption to be metered. This permits each household to determine how much it wants to spend on water while ensuring sustainability of services across the network. The attitudes of poor communities toward metering are generally positive.