Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?

A majority of sub-Saharan Africa s population is not connected to electricity and piped water networks, and even in urban areas coverage is low. Lack of network coverage may be due to demand or supply-side factors. Some households may live in area...

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Main Authors:	Wodon, Quentin, Banerjee, Sudeshna, Diallo, Amadou Bassirou, Foster, Vivien
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING AREA ASSETS BILLS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CENSUS DATA CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COST RECOVERY DEFICITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME INVESTING SCATTER PLOT SCATTER PLOTS SUPPLY SIDE SUPPLY-SIDE TAKE-UP RATE TAKE-UP RATES TYPE OF WORK UTILITY BILLS WEALTH WEIGHTS
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spelling	okr-10986-40752021-04-23T14:02:15Z Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply? Wodon, Quentin Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Bassirou Foster, Vivien ACCOUNTING AREA ASSETS BILLS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CENSUS DATA CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COST RECOVERY DEFICITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME INVESTING SCATTER PLOT SCATTER PLOTS SUPPLY SIDE SUPPLY-SIDE TAKE-UP RATE TAKE-UP RATES TYPE OF WORK UTILITY BILLS WEALTH WEIGHTS A majority of sub-Saharan Africa s population is not connected to electricity and piped water networks, and even in urban areas coverage is low. Lack of network coverage may be due to demand or supply-side factors. Some households may live in areas where access to piped water and electricity is feasible, but may not be able to pay for those services. Other households may be able to afford the services, but may live too far from the electric line or water pipe to have a choice to be connected to it. Given that the policy options for dealing with demand as opposed to supply-side issues are fairly different, it is important to try to measure the contributions of both types of factors in preventing better coverage of infrastructure services in the population. This paper shows how this can be done empirically using household survey data and provides results on the magnitude of both types of factors in explaining the coverage deficit of piped water and electricity services in urban areas for a large sample of African countries. 2012-03-19T19:09:34Z 2012-03-19T19:09:34Z 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_20090327144908 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4075 English 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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topic	ACCOUNTING AREA ASSETS BILLS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CENSUS DATA CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COST RECOVERY DEFICITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME INVESTING SCATTER PLOT SCATTER PLOTS SUPPLY SIDE SUPPLY-SIDE TAKE-UP RATE TAKE-UP RATES TYPE OF WORK UTILITY BILLS WEALTH WEIGHTS
spellingShingle	ACCOUNTING AREA ASSETS BILLS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CENSUS DATA CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COST RECOVERY DEFICITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME INVESTING SCATTER PLOT SCATTER PLOTS SUPPLY SIDE SUPPLY-SIDE TAKE-UP RATE TAKE-UP RATES TYPE OF WORK UTILITY BILLS WEALTH WEIGHTS Wodon, Quentin Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Bassirou Foster, Vivien Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
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description	A majority of sub-Saharan Africa s population is not connected to electricity and piped water networks, and even in urban areas coverage is low. Lack of network coverage may be due to demand or supply-side factors. Some households may live in areas where access to piped water and electricity is feasible, but may not be able to pay for those services. Other households may be able to afford the services, but may live too far from the electric line or water pipe to have a choice to be connected to it. Given that the policy options for dealing with demand as opposed to supply-side issues are fairly different, it is important to try to measure the contributions of both types of factors in preventing better coverage of infrastructure services in the population. This paper shows how this can be done empirically using household survey data and provides results on the magnitude of both types of factors in explaining the coverage deficit of piped water and electricity services in urban areas for a large sample of African countries.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Wodon, Quentin Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Bassirou Foster, Vivien
author_facet	Wodon, Quentin Banerjee, Sudeshna Diallo, Amadou Bassirou Foster, Vivien
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title	Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
title_short	Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
title_full	Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
title_fullStr	Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
title_full_unstemmed	Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?
title_sort	is low coverage of modern infrastructure services in african cities due to lack of demand or lack of supply?
publishDate	2012
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Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities due to Lack of Demand or Lack of Supply?

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