This report addresses a pressing issue in Mexico's electricity sector the large and growing subsidies to residential consumers and their regressive incidence across different segments of the population...
Governments typically provide the water and sanitation sector with substantial amounts of public money. Monopoly power, public funds, and discretionary decisions, coupled with poor accountability, breed...
This sourcebook is part of a broader program of work on governance and corruption in the water supply and sanitation sector. The Sourcebook is meant as a resource to assist water and sanitation sector...
This sourcebook is part of a broader program on governance and corruption in the electricity sector. The sourcebook is meant as a resource to sector practitioners to assess the extent and risks of corruption...
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 design of regulation for water supply and sanitation (WSS) services has tended to follow a check-box approach - diagnose the need, prescribe an independent regulator or similar model (often developed...
This paper discusses the regulation of water and sanitation services in urban areas. Specifically, it explores ways of thinking about regulatory design as part of a wider, country-specific program to reform...
This paper aims to provide practical guidance on how to evaluate regulatory arrangements and adapt them to be more conducive to expanding access and improving service to poor customers. It discusses output-based...
The Explanatory Notes on Key Topics in the Regulation of Water and Sanitation Services provide a consistent set of principles and practices that respond to these questions. Such information will be of...
A key measure of the effectiveness of public spending on infrastructure is the extent to which it benefits poor people. In recent years policymakers and development practitioners have increasingly sought...
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...
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...
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...
在天然气经销网络发展过程中的私人参与,往往是通过授予在特定地理区域内的排他性专营权实现的。在上百万人口的大城市中设计这种专营权,是对政府在规模经济(较少经销商)和有利于管理的信息披露(较多经销商)之间取得平衡的挑战。本文用墨西哥城的案例分析了专营权设计和实现有关平衡的方法。 与墨西哥其它私有化不同的是,在天然气经销特许权投标中,政府只规定在第一个五年结束时经销商所应服务的最低消费者数量。政府将专营权合同授予那些最初平均收入报价最低的公司。在适当的情况下,政府还确定中标公司将要购买的原有经销设施的价值。这些特点(加上价格和使用规定的具体要求与具体区域内的技术特征)决定了经销活动的风险分配和融资方法。...
The study looks at the gaps between populations with access to electricity, vs. those who rely on biomass energy; similarly, at those who can access petroleum products, and those who don't, and, examines...
Reform of the water, electricity, and telecommunications sectors is gathering momentum in nearly all developing countries. Reform should include an assessment of whether subsidies are necessary and if...