What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?
This paper quantitatively compares water infrastructure interventions that prioritize equity with those that prioritize efficiency. The community-based model developed by Haiti Outreach (HO) trains communities to operate and maintain wells and has clear efficiency gains over the status quo aid model...
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okr-10986-327862021-05-25T10:54:37Z What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti? Aliprantis, Dionissi WATER SUPPLY WELLS STATUS QUO MODEL COMMUNITY WELFARE USER FEE WELL MAINTENANCE This paper quantitatively compares water infrastructure interventions that prioritize equity with those that prioritize efficiency. The community-based model developed by Haiti Outreach (HO) trains communities to operate and maintain wells and has clear efficiency gains over the status quo aid model in Haiti that gives communities wells: HO’s wells were 8.7 percentage points more likely to be functioning after one year than similarly-constructed wells managed under the status quo model. Because HO’s model includes user fees, which raise concerns about equity, I quantify the equity-efficiency tradeoff posed by community-based and aid interventions by determining the preferences of a social planner indifferent between these types of water infrastructure interventions. Since HO’s user fees are only 0.6 percent of median income in rural Haiti, under most specifications the efficiency gains of the community-based model outweigh the equity concerns addressed by the aid model. 2019-12-04T22:57:10Z 2019-12-04T22:57:10Z 2018-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32786 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Haiti |
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This paper quantitatively compares water infrastructure interventions that prioritize equity with those that prioritize efficiency. The community-based model developed by Haiti Outreach (HO) trains communities to operate and maintain wells and has clear efficiency gains over the status quo aid model in Haiti that gives communities wells: HO’s wells were 8.7 percentage points more likely to be functioning after one year than similarly-constructed wells managed under the status quo model. Because HO’s model includes user fees, which raise concerns about equity, I quantify the equity-efficiency tradeoff posed by community-based and aid interventions by determining the preferences of a social planner indifferent between these types of water infrastructure interventions. Since HO’s user fees are only 0.6 percent of median income in rural Haiti, under most specifications the efficiency gains of the community-based model outweigh the equity concerns addressed by the aid model. |
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Aliprantis, Dionissi |
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Aliprantis, Dionissi |
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What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti? |
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What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff When Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti? |
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what is the equity-efficiency tradeoff when maintaining wells in rural haiti? |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank |
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2019 |
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