Documents et rapports

Ukraine - DPL 1 (anglais)

Ukraine - Second Development Policy Loan : chair summary (anglais)

Official Documents- Statutory Committee Report for Loan 8392-UA (Closing Package) (anglais)

Is low coverage of modern infrastructure services in African cities due to lack of demand or lack of supply ? (anglais)

A majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s population is not connected to electricity and piped water networks, and even in urban areas coverage is low. Lack of network coverage may be due to demand or supply-side...

Water, electricity, and the poor : who benefits from utility subsidies? (anglais)

Utility subsidies to consumers of water and electricity services are often justified as a mechanism for making services affordable for the poor. After all, an estimated 1.1 billion people in the developing...

The distributional incidence of residential water and electricity subsidies (anglais)

Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are...

Water, electricity, and the poor : who benefits from utility subsidies? (anglais)

While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the poor is the subject of much debate. This publication...

Scorecard for subsidies - how utility subsidies perform in transition economies (anglais)

Unlike the poor in many developing countries, those in Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, are highly connected to network utilities. During the early 1990s, it became clear that without...