Study of the Distributional Performance of Piped Water Consumption Subsidies in 10 Developing Countries
This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The results suggest that, in these countries, existing tariff structures fa...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/506411589308494989/Study-of-the-Distributional-Performance-of-Piped-Water-Consumption-Subsidies-in-10-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33757 |
| Summary: | This paper provides new evidence on how
effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting
poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries
around the world. The results suggest that, in these
countries, existing tariff structures fall short of
recovering the costs of service provision, and the resulting
subsidies largely fail to achieve their goal of improving
the accessibility and affordability of piped water for poor
households. Instead, the majority of subsidies in all 10
countries are captured by the richest households. This is in
part because the most vulnerable population segments
typically face challenges in accessing and connecting to
piped water services. The paper also reveals shortcomings in
the design of the subsidies, which are conditional on poor
households being connected to a piped network. |
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