Lebanon - Social Impact Analysis : Electricity and Water Sectors
The purpose of this Social Impact Analysis (SIA) is to probe the social, poverty, and equity dimensions of electricity and water sector reforms' and provide meaningful analysis to policy makers based on recently collected data. With a focus on...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/06/10842557/lebanon-social-impact-analysis-electricity-water-sectors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18890 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this Social Impact
Analysis (SIA) is to probe the social, poverty, and equity
dimensions of electricity and water sector reforms' and
provide meaningful analysis to policy makers based on
recently collected data. With a focus on households, the end
users of utility services, the study complements the recent
and ongoing studies on the Lebanon water and energy sectors
that deal with more technical and supply side issues. The
study assesses how poor and vulnerable households are
affected by the current utility service situation and how
they may be affected by reform proposals under deliberation.
The aim is to provide policy makers with a deeper
understanding of the social dimensions of water and
electricity consumption as well as tools for estimating the
distributional impacts of reform measures. This study
followed the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA)
approach, an increasingly common approach, used both within
and outside the World Bank to evaluate the distributional
impacts of policy reforms. Chapter two provides a review of
household electricity supply and demand, private generation,
tariffs, expenditures, and willingness to pay. It is
followed by a discussion of the distributional impact of the
tariff structure, including simulations of tariff scenarios
for illustrative purposes. Chapter three reviews the water
sector, public water supply, household connections, water
quality issues, alternate water sources, tariffs,
expenditures, and willingness to pay. Both chapters conclude
with recommendations with an emphasis on social implications
of key reforms that matters for households. Annexes cover
methodology and a description of the private generator
business in Lebanon. |
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