Utility Reform : Regulating Quality Standards to Improve Access for the Poor
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...
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| Format: | Viewpoint |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/10/729355/utility-reform-regulating-quality-standards-improve-access-poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11414 |
| Summary: | 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
for quality diversification by utilities, and early results
from efforts by some to diversify. |
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