Regulating Quality : Let Competing Firms Offer a Mix of Price and Quality Options
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 to address this problem. Debate on exp...
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| Format: | Viewpoint |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/10/729357/regulating-quality-competing-firms-offer-mix-price-quality-options http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11416 |
| Summary: | 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 to
address this problem. Debate on expanding access under such
reform, has so far centered on price, not quality. This note
proposes a new regulatory framework, where large, and small
providers compete to supply a range of services at prices
that better reflect consumer willingness to pay. |
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