Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa
Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and health indicators, but they have not been used to the same extent to assess trends in the access to or coverage of modern infrastruc...
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okr-10986-40742021-04-23T14:02:15Z Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Foster, Vivien Wodon, Quentin ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER ACCESS TO SAFE WATER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC SANITATION BULLETIN CITIES COMMUNITIES CONNECTION CONNECTION CHARGES COST RECOVERY DECLINES IN FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RESOURCES FLUSH TOILET FLUSH TOILETS GROSS NATIONAL INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LABOR MARKETS MIGRATION MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MINORITY MONTHLY BILL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL GAS NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT ACCESS NUMBER OF PERSONS NUTRITION OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PIT LATRINE PIT LATRINES POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR PEOPLE POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES PRIVATE PARTICIPATION PROGRESS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC TAP PUBLIC TAPS PURCHASING POWER QUALITY OF SERVICE QUALITY OF SERVICE DELIVERY RADIO RESPECT RICHER COUNTRIES RURAL AREAS RURAL DWELLERS RURAL POPULATION SAFE SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SANITATION SERVICES SEPTIC TANK SEPTIC TANKS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE QUALITY SEWERAGE SEWERAGE SERVICE SEWERAGE SYSTEM SEWERAGE SYSTEMS SIGNIFICANT POLICY SMALL TOWNS SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER SURFACE WATER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TELEVISION TOILET FACILITY UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS URBAN DWELLERS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WATER SERVICE WATER SERVICE PROVIDERS WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WELLS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and health indicators, but they have not been used to the same extent to assess trends in the access to or coverage of modern infrastructure services. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample of sub-Saharan African countries in order to collect comparable information across countries on coverage of piped water, flush toilets, electricity, and landline telephones over time. The results suggest that coverage rates for electricity, flush toilets have improved slightly over the last decade. Coverage of piped water has declined, at the same time as coverage of landline (as well as cellular) telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure coverage has either increased or remained stable in rural Africa. For all four services, among the poorest households coverage remains virtually inexistent. If business as usual continues, it would take a very long time to reach universal or widely shared coverage even in countries where coverage has improved. These results point to the need to increase efforts by governments and international community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. 2012-03-19T19:09:33Z 2012-03-19T19:09:33Z 2009-03-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090327143810 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4074 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4880 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Africa |
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ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER ACCESS TO SAFE WATER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC SANITATION BULLETIN CITIES COMMUNITIES CONNECTION CONNECTION CHARGES COST RECOVERY DECLINES IN FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RESOURCES FLUSH TOILET FLUSH TOILETS GROSS NATIONAL INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LABOR MARKETS MIGRATION MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MINORITY MONTHLY BILL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL GAS NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT ACCESS NUMBER OF PERSONS NUTRITION OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PIT LATRINE PIT LATRINES POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR PEOPLE POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES PRIVATE PARTICIPATION PROGRESS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC TAP PUBLIC TAPS PURCHASING POWER QUALITY OF SERVICE QUALITY OF SERVICE DELIVERY RADIO RESPECT RICHER COUNTRIES RURAL AREAS RURAL DWELLERS RURAL POPULATION SAFE SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SANITATION SERVICES SEPTIC TANK SEPTIC TANKS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE QUALITY SEWERAGE SEWERAGE SERVICE SEWERAGE SYSTEM SEWERAGE SYSTEMS SIGNIFICANT POLICY SMALL TOWNS SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER SURFACE WATER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TELEVISION TOILET FACILITY UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS URBAN DWELLERS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WATER SERVICE WATER SERVICE PROVIDERS WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WELLS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION |
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ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER ACCESS TO SAFE WATER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC SANITATION BULLETIN CITIES COMMUNITIES CONNECTION CONNECTION CHARGES COST RECOVERY DECLINES IN FERTILITY DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RESOURCES FLUSH TOILET FLUSH TOILETS GROSS NATIONAL INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LABOR MARKETS MIGRATION MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MINORITY MONTHLY BILL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL GAS NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT ACCESS NUMBER OF PERSONS NUTRITION OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PIT LATRINE PIT LATRINES POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR PEOPLE POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES PRIVATE PARTICIPATION PROGRESS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC TAP PUBLIC TAPS PURCHASING POWER QUALITY OF SERVICE QUALITY OF SERVICE DELIVERY RADIO RESPECT RICHER COUNTRIES RURAL AREAS RURAL DWELLERS RURAL POPULATION SAFE SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SANITATION SERVICES SEPTIC TANK SEPTIC TANKS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE QUALITY SEWERAGE SEWERAGE SERVICE SEWERAGE SYSTEM SEWERAGE SYSTEMS SIGNIFICANT POLICY SMALL TOWNS SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER SURFACE WATER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TELEVISION TOILET FACILITY UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS URBAN DWELLERS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WATER SERVICE WATER SERVICE PROVIDERS WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WELLS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Foster, Vivien Wodon, Quentin Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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Household surveys have long been used to
estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in
education and health indicators, but they have not been used
to the same extent to assess trends in the access to or
coverage of modern infrastructure services. In this paper,
we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample
of sub-Saharan African countries in order to collect
comparable information across countries on coverage of piped
water, flush toilets, electricity, and landline telephones
over time. The results suggest that coverage rates for
electricity, flush toilets have improved slightly over the
last decade. Coverage of piped water has declined, at the
same time as coverage of landline (as well as cellular)
telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been
primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure
coverage has either increased or remained stable in rural
Africa. For all four services, among the poorest households
coverage remains virtually inexistent. If business as usual
continues, it would take a very long time to reach universal
or widely shared coverage even in countries where coverage
has improved. These results point to the need to increase
efforts by governments and international community to
progressively increase access to modern infrastructure
services in Africa. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Foster, Vivien Wodon, Quentin |
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Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Foster, Vivien Wodon, Quentin |
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Banerjee, Sudeshna |
| title |
Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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Trends in Household Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in Africa |
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trends in household coverage of modern infrastructure services in africa |
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2012 |
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