Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future
Argentina was a pioneer of infrastructure reform in the early 1990s. The social dimension of infrastructure services was typically overlooked in the reform process. However, social sensitivities often resurfaced in the years that followed,...
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okr-10986-142462021-04-23T14:03:21Z Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future Foster, Vivien ALTERNATIVE INSTRUMENTS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS CPI DECENTRALIZATION DEVALUATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMISTS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL BASIS EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY FUELS GDP GINI COEFFICIENT HORIZONTAL EQUITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES JURISDICTION JURISDICTIONS LABOR FORCE LEISURE LORENZ CURVE LOW INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY FRAMEWORK POLICY INSTRUMENT POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRICE FLUCTUATIONS PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PURCHASING POWER SANITATION SERVICE PROVIDERS SOCIAL POLICIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AREAS WAGES WATER SERVICES WHOLESALE PRICES Argentina was a pioneer of infrastructure reform in the early 1990s. The social dimension of infrastructure services was typically overlooked in the reform process. However, social sensitivities often resurfaced in the years that followed, leading to a series of ad hoc social policy measures that cumulatively amount to US$200 million a year. Foster quantifies and prioritizes the social challenges faced by the Argentine infrastructure sectors, evaluates how well existing social policies are functioning, and provides illustrative simulations of how certain changes in the design of social policy could improve the performance of current social policies. The author's findings are that current social policies do not prove to be very effective in targeting resources to the poor. They have no real impact on the distribution of income across customers. An important reason for this targeting failure is the tendency to allocate resources to all households resident in a particular geographical area, irrespective of socioeconomic status. A series of simulations that limit subsidies to households reaching a minimum score on a multidimensional poverty index show that individual targeting of this kind potentially leads to a more progressive distribution of subsidies. However, the greatest improvements in targeting performance would be achieved if efforts switched from subsidizing the use of infrastructure services to subsidizing connections to those services. 2013-06-27T18:20:31Z 2013-06-27T18:20:31Z 2004-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5182629/toward-social-policy-argentinas-infrastructure-sectors-evaluating-past-exploring-future http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14246 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.3422 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean |
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ALTERNATIVE INSTRUMENTS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS CPI DECENTRALIZATION DEVALUATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMISTS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL BASIS EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY FUELS GDP GINI COEFFICIENT HORIZONTAL EQUITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES JURISDICTION JURISDICTIONS LABOR FORCE LEISURE LORENZ CURVE LOW INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY FRAMEWORK POLICY INSTRUMENT POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRICE FLUCTUATIONS PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PURCHASING POWER SANITATION SERVICE PROVIDERS SOCIAL POLICIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AREAS WAGES WATER SERVICES WHOLESALE PRICES |
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ALTERNATIVE INSTRUMENTS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS CPI DECENTRALIZATION DEVALUATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMISTS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL BASIS EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY FUELS GDP GINI COEFFICIENT HORIZONTAL EQUITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES JURISDICTION JURISDICTIONS LABOR FORCE LEISURE LORENZ CURVE LOW INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POLICY FRAMEWORK POLICY INSTRUMENT POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRICE FLUCTUATIONS PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PURCHASING POWER SANITATION SERVICE PROVIDERS SOCIAL POLICIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AREAS WAGES WATER SERVICES WHOLESALE PRICES Foster, Vivien Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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Argentina was a pioneer of
infrastructure reform in the early 1990s. The social
dimension of infrastructure services was typically
overlooked in the reform process. However, social
sensitivities often resurfaced in the years that followed,
leading to a series of ad hoc social policy measures that
cumulatively amount to US$200 million a year. Foster
quantifies and prioritizes the social challenges faced by
the Argentine infrastructure sectors, evaluates how well
existing social policies are functioning, and provides
illustrative simulations of how certain changes in the
design of social policy could improve the performance of
current social policies. The author's findings are that
current social policies do not prove to be very effective in
targeting resources to the poor. They have no real impact on
the distribution of income across customers. An important
reason for this targeting failure is the tendency to
allocate resources to all households resident in a
particular geographical area, irrespective of socioeconomic
status. A series of simulations that limit subsidies to
households reaching a minimum score on a multidimensional
poverty index show that individual targeting of this kind
potentially leads to a more progressive distribution of
subsidies. However, the greatest improvements in targeting
performance would be achieved if efforts switched from
subsidizing the use of infrastructure services to
subsidizing connections to those services. |
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Foster, Vivien |
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Foster, Vivien |
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Foster, Vivien |
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Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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Toward a Social Policy for Argentina's Infrastructure Sectors: Evaluating the Past and Exploring the Future |
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toward a social policy for argentina's infrastructure sectors: evaluating the past and exploring the future |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5182629/toward-social-policy-argentinas-infrastructure-sectors-evaluating-past-exploring-future http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14246 |
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