Utility reform - regulating quality standards to improve access for the poor (English)

Privatization of infrastructure services is often followed by stricter enforcement of quality standards, which raises costs, maintaining, or worsening the exclusion of the poor. The poor would get easier access to service, if the main provider was permitted to deviate from this uniform standard, offering poor consumers a service in which an acceptable relaxation in quality, led to a lower price. This note reviews the legal, and technical challenges...

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Baker, Bill;

Trémolet, Sophie;
Document Date
2000/10/31
Document Type
Viewpoint
Report Number
21479
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2018/01/05
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Disclosed
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Utility reform - regulating quality standards to improve access for the poor
Keywords
economies of scale and scope

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Baker, Bill; Trémolet, Sophie.

Utility reform - regulating quality standards to improve access for the poor (English). Note no. 219|Private infrastructure notes|Public policy for the private sector Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/555121468762011918

Utility reform - regulating quality standards to improve access for the poor (English)

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