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Improving access to infrastructure services by the poor - institutional and policy responses (pdf 367kb)

This paper provides an overview of the access challenge in developing countries, supported with current evidence on the nature and magnitude of access.

It considers the following:

- Access to infrastructure services by low-income households and communities.
- Key levers for policymakers to address the access challenge, looking at the roles of reforms to ownership, market structure, pricing policies, and subsidy and regulatory systems.
- How policy approaches might be adjusted to different institutional environments.

 

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