During the 1990's a number of countries in Latin America including Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, developed policies focused on utility sector liberalization through increased private sector participation. This focus resulted from the recognition that overall quality and availability of services were inadequate. Infrastructure reform is inexorably linked to poverty alleviation and therefore must be carefully constructed and enacted. This book provides practical guidelines and options for infrastructure reform that result in access and affordability for the poor. Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin America's Experience includes analysis of the trade-offs that must be made between efficiency, equity, and fiscal costs of the options. It includes a new model for reform that consists of three main components - policies, regulation, and provision which when properly balanced minimize the risks associated with reform.

Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin America's Experience (WBI Development Studies)

Business & Money

Wodon, Quentin

Foster, Vivien

Estache, Antonio

Economics

World Bank Publications

While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the poor is the subject of much debate. 'Water, Electricity, and the Poor' brings together empirical evidence on subsidy performance across a wide range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, provides a typology of the many variants found in the developing world, and presents a number of indicators useful in assessing the degree to which such subsidies benefit the poor, focusing on three key concepts: beneficiary incidence, benefit incidence, and materiality.

Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (Directions in Development)

Komives, Kristin

Halpern, Jonathan

The book provides evidence on the role of infrastructure in accelerating growth and progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, and on the financing needs for the sector to play this role. It also provides quantitative data and analysis on the performance of various sub-sectors in terms of access rates, affordability, quality, and costs. Finally it discusses the impact of the main institutional, contractual, and regulatory reforms implemented in the sector so far and the way forward.

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-saharan Africa (Directions in Development)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

World Bank

The Economics of Faith-Based Service Delivery provides the first ever comprehensive empirical assessment of the role that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) play in the supply of health care and education services in sub-Saharan Africa. Wodon focuses on estimating the market share, reach to the poor, and cost for households that rely on FIIs as opposed to public and private secular providers of education and health care services. He also analyzes the causes of user reliance on FIIs, the comparative performance of FIIs, and the level of satisfaction among those that use their services. The Economics of Faith-Based Service Delivery is an innovate combination of previously untapped nationally representative household surveys, qualitative fieldwork, and insights from the fields of religious studies and social economics.

The Economics of Faith-Based Service Delivery: Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (Perspectives from Social Economics)

Reference

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Membership in Service Clubs: Rotary's Experience (Palgrave Pivot)

Wodon, Divya

Wodon, Naina

Business Culture

Palgrave Pivot

Membership in Service Clubs: Rotary's Experience

Public Finance for Poverty Reduction: Concepts and Case Studies from Africa and Latin America (Directions in Development)

Moreno-Dodson, Blanca

Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Investing in Early Childhood Development: Review of the World Bank’s Recent Experience provides an overview of World Bank investments in early childhood development (ECD) from 2000 to 2013 within three of the Bank’s Global Practices: Education; Health, Nutrition, &amp; Population; and Social Protection &amp; Labor. The study summarizes trends in operational and analytical investments, including lending and trust-funded operations at the country, regional, and global levels. Findings are presented on both the funding for and the number of ECD investments. Case studies are also provided to highlight lessons learned and inform future Bank support for ECD. Finally, the study discusses recent new approaches to support ECD within the World Bank and in client countries.

Investing in Early Childhood Development: Review of the World Bank's Recent Experience (World Bank Studies)

Neuman, Michelle J.

Sayre, Rebecca K.

Devercelli, Amanda E.

Education & Reference

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