In 1997 Gabon awarded the first real
concession in Africa, under a contract that introduced
coverage targets for expanding service to previously
unconnected rural areas....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 24822Date: June 1, 2002Author:
Tremolet,Sophie Cecile Marie
Drawing on the World Bank's Private
Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note
provides an overview of private activity in infrastructure
in developing...
This note highlights the wide variation
in performance on key indicators: unaccounted-for water,
labor costs, the working ratio, service coverage, water
prices and connection...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 24278Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Tyman, Nicola ;
Kingdom, Bill
This Note examines an innovative,
donor-supported voucher scheme to treat and prevent sexually
transmitted diseases in Nicaragua. Voucher schemes enable
donors to purchase...
After almost a decade of high-level
efforts to bring electricity tariffs closer to the cost of
supply, India has barely made a dent in the long-standing
and increasingly...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 24277Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Monari,Lucio
This Note looks at systems some
governments have used to transform unsolicited proposals for
private infrastructure projects into competitively tendered
projects. It...
As governments struggle with rising
health care costs, public-private partnerships in
constructing and managing public hospitals can provide
innovative ways to control...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23943Date: January 31, 2002Author:
Taylor, Rob ;
Blair, Simon
Recent World Bank analysis shows that
taxes on petroleum products are a critical source of
government revenue for low-income countries. And if the
experience of industrial...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23942Date: September 30, 2001Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
In 1994 the Romanian government
introduced a pilot scheme of output-based contracts to
develop the independent provision of primary health
services, to increase the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23941Date: September 30, 2001Author:
Vladescu,Cristian ;
Radulescu,Silviu Calin
In the fuel business, smuggling,
adulteration, mislabeling, and short-weighting are
widespread in many developing counties. Not only do these
commercial abuses reduce...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23939Date: September 30, 2001Author:
Kojima,Masami ;
Bacon,Robert W.
The vehicle inspection program in Mexico
City is regard as one of the most successful in a developing
country. As the program evolved it suffered the problem
common...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23940Date: September 30, 2001Author:
Kojima,Masami ;
Bacon,Robert W.
In 1999 the U.S. Agency for
International Development introduced performance-based
contracting in an effort to improve the effectiveness of
some of Haiti's nongovernmental...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 23938Date: August 31, 2001Author:
Pollock,John Walter ;
Auxila,Paul ;
Eichler,Rena
In Bangladesh an education program aimed
at teaching mothers how to prepare and use oral rehydration
solution to treat diarrhea relied on output-based incentives
to...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 24543Date: August 1, 2001Author:
Chowdhury,Sadia Afroze
The private sector has provided
investment funding and services for the United Kingdom
public sector schools through output-based contracts since
1996. Under these contracts...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22410Date: June 30, 2001Author:
Goldstone, David
The Argentine government is using
output-based contracts with the private sector for
rehabilitation and maintenance of its nonconcessioned road
network. The multiyear...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22408Date: June 30, 2001Author:
Liautaud,Gerard L.
To guarantee adequate and affordable
water and sanitation services for vulnerable households,
Chile introduced an individual means-tested water
consumption subsidy a...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22409Date: June 30, 2001Author:
Gomez-Lobo,Andres
In Peru private telecommunications
operators bid for the minimum government subsidy to provide
pay phone service to the poor in targeted rural areas. Part
of the subsidy...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 24818Date: June 1, 2001Author:
Cannock, Geoffrey
Officials in developing countries with
legal and political systems of continental European origin
often argue that the model of independent regulatory
agencies for utilities...
In some countries regulators routinely
publish indicators of utility service performance through
the local media. Exposing the "worst in class" has
proven to be a powerful...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22406Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Kingdom, Bill ;
Jagannathan, Vijay
Some utilities have responded to recent
changes in technology and market liberalization by turning
themselves into "multi-utilities" that bundle
traditionally distinct...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22405Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Sommer,Dirk
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