Small-scale providers of infrastructure services, are proving to be more responsive than utilities, to needs of poor consumers. They might be delivering water services by tanker, transport services by...
Privatization of infrastructure services is often followed by stricter enforcement of quality standards, which raises costs, maintaining, or worsening the exclusion of the poor. The poor would get easier...
In many developing countries, the regulation of infrastructure service standards is rigid, and makes services too expensive for the poor. The current wave of liberalization of infrastructure, is an opportunity...
Private infrastructure: private activity fell by 30 percent in 1999; by Ada Karina Izaguirre and Geetha Rao. Private infrastructure: are the trends in low-income countries different? ; by Melissa Houskamp...