Infrastructure Services in Developing Countries : Access, Quality, Costs and Policy Reform

The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in addition to the widely discussed access problems, the poorest also face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s. The authors make a case for a stronger commitment of the international community to generate the information needed to assess and monitor infrastructure needs and policies.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Briceño-Garmendia, Cecilia, Estache, Antonio, Shafik, Nemat
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2004-12
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING, AIRPORTS, AVERAGE COSTS, BASIC EDUCATION, CLINICS, CORRUPTION, COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, DEBT, DEBT SERVICE, DECENTRALIZATION, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT BANKS, DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, DIMINISHING RETURNS, DISCLOSURE, DRINKING WATER, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EFFICIENCY LEVELS, ELASTICITIES, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY GENERATION, EMPLOYMENT, ENDOWMENTS, EXPENDITURES, EXTERNALITIES, FINANCIAL POLICIES, FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION, FISCAL PERFORMANCE, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HOUSEHOLDS, HOUSING, HOUSING POLICY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INCOME, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME INEQUALITY, INFANT MORTALITY, INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES, INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, INTERNATIONAL DONORS, INVESTMENT EXPENDITURES, LATIN AMERICAN, LOCAL CAPACITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, LOW INCOME, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MONOPOLIES, MORTALITY, NEGATIVE EFFECTS, NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES, PERVERSE INCENTIVES, POLICY RESEARCH, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POLLUTION REGULATION, PORTS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION, PRODUCERS, PRODUCTIVITY, PROVISIONS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, PUBLIC GOOD, PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC INVESTMENT, PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SERVICES, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PUBLIC UTILITIES, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, ROADS, SANITATION, SAVINGS, SERVICE DELIVERY, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, TAXATION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, THAILAND, TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, UGANDA, URBAN GROWTH, URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN POPULATIONS, URBANIZATION, UTILITIES, VIETNAM, WAGES, WATER POLLUTION, WATER QUALITY, WATER SUPPLY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/12/5589469/infrastructure-services-developing-countries-access-quality-costs-policy-reform https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14721
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