Private Provision of Rural   Infrastructure Services: Competing for Subsidies

Wellenius, Bjorn; Foster, Vivien; Malmberg-Calvo, Christina

Private Provision of Rural Infrastructure Services: Competing for Subsidies

2004

Wellenius, Bjorn | Foster, Vivien | Malmberg-Calvo, Christina

Market-oriented reforms of infrastructure in developing countries tend to focus primarily on commercially viable services in urban areas. Nevertheless, an increasing number of countries are beginning to experiment with extending the market paradigm to infrastructure services in rural areas that are often less attractive in commercial terms. In these cases, subsidies are used to close the gap between market requirements and development needs, and are increasingly determined and allocated on a competitive basis. The authors discuss the conditions under which competition among firms for such subsidies-successfully used in the telecommunications sector in a number of middle-income countries-could also be applied to electricity, water and sanitation, and transportation services in lower-income countries.

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World Bank, Washington, D.C.

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Communal facilities; Small towns; Private companies; Connection charges; Investment costs; Private operators; Payphones; Business opportunities; Water system; Rural telecommunications; Municipalities; Domestic connections; Tradeoffs; Water systems; Service standards; Urban water supply; Investment cost; Service quality; Policy research; Local water; Business strategies; Service development; Service providers; Water supply company; Consumer goods; Market distortions; User charges; Sanitation services; Telecenters; Water user; Capital investments; Sanitation facilities; Rural electrification; Private financing; Rural energy; Telephone lines; Small municipalities; Transport services access barriers; Maintenance costs; Scale economies; Public transport; Water service; Contractors; Rural water supply; Telephones; Rural telephony; Telecommunications sector; Water sources; Regulatory framework; Communication technologies; Competitive basis; Technical assistance; Quality standards; Tax revenue; Transparency; Community water; Programs; Competitive markets; Business opportunity; Debt financing; Public service; Local operators; Urban water; Bidding; Revenue collection; Sewerage systems; Water & sanitation; Cross-subsidies; Water supply systems; Septic tank; Water distribution; Service provision; Water coverage; Hand pump; Service contracts; Provision of services; Service delivery; Private operator; Marginal cost; Service delivery mechanisms; Water supplies; Rural water; Household connections; Business organizations; Town; Externalities; Water services; Telecommunications networks; Telecommunications companies; Responsibility for service provision; Tax; Initial investment; Rural operators; Connection fee; Licenses; Rural infrastructure

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Policy Research Working Paper;No.3365http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/World BankCC BY 3.0 Unported

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Policy Research Working Paper;No.3365

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2004

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