Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings

Trinidad and Tobago's 1.3 million residents are provided water supply and sewerage services by a national utility whose service levels have been inadequate and deteriorating through the recent past, largely due to a lack of investment in utility infrastructure. A owillingness to payo study asse...

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Main Authors: Virjee, K., Gaskin, S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5376
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spelling okr-10986-53762021-04-23T14:02:22Z Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings Virjee, K. Gaskin, S. Trinidad and Tobago's 1.3 million residents are provided water supply and sewerage services by a national utility whose service levels have been inadequate and deteriorating through the recent past, largely due to a lack of investment in utility infrastructure. A owillingness to payo study assessed the degree of coverage and quality of service and the residents' willingness to accept water tariff increases for an increase in service level. Willingness to pay for change is low, below current tariffs, due to scepticism about the likelihood of change and due to the ability to cope with bad service through the pervasive use of local storage. 2012-03-30T07:32:32Z 2012-03-30T07:32:32Z 2010 Journal Article Water International 0250-8060 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5376 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Trinidad and Tobago
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description Trinidad and Tobago's 1.3 million residents are provided water supply and sewerage services by a national utility whose service levels have been inadequate and deteriorating through the recent past, largely due to a lack of investment in utility infrastructure. A owillingness to payo study assessed the degree of coverage and quality of service and the residents' willingness to accept water tariff increases for an increase in service level. Willingness to pay for change is low, below current tariffs, due to scepticism about the likelihood of change and due to the ability to cope with bad service through the pervasive use of local storage.
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author Virjee, K.
Gaskin, S.
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Gaskin, S.
Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
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Gaskin, S.
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title Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
title_short Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
title_full Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
title_fullStr Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
title_full_unstemmed Coping with Crises : Why and How to Protect Employment and Earnings
title_sort coping with crises : why and how to protect employment and earnings
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