Do Current Water Subsidies Reach the Poor?
There has been no hard empirical evidence to confirm or reject the hypothesis that water subsidies may be failing to reach the poor. This paper summarizes the results of some new survey-based research that estimates that estimates the value of the...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6895339/current-water-subsidies-reach-poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17260 |
| Summary: | There has been no hard empirical
evidence to confirm or reject the hypothesis that water
subsidies may be failing to reach the poor. This paper
summarizes the results of some new survey-based research
that estimates that estimates the value of the water subsidy
received by individual households in two South Asian cities,
and also estimates the income levels of these households.
Using both pieces of information together, it is possible to
evaluate the extent to which subsidies are actually reaching
the poor. The analysis shows that about three quarters of
the subsidies available to water utilities in the cities of
Bangalore and Katmandu are delivered in a way which
completely fails to reach the poor. |
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