UID:
almafu_9958092972402883
Format:
xvii, 283 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-23829-1
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9786610238293
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0-8213-6343-3
Series Statement:
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
Content:
"This book is an extremely thorough and readable review of how effective utility subsidies are in reaching the poor. It makes sobering reading for policy makers who have implemented such subsidy programmes, who are looking for ways to ameliorate heavy price increases, or who believed that these subsidies were useful instruments for alleviating poverty." - Catherine Waddams, Director, Center for Competition PolicySchool of Management, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom "This study makes a fine contribution, theoretical and empirical, in an area where much nonsense has been preached, and
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction; Tables; 2 A Typology of Consumer Utility Subsidies; Boxes; Figures; 3 The Rationale for Subsidizing Services for the Poor; 4 The Determinants of Targeting Performance: A Conceptual Framework; 5 The Targeting Performance of Quantity-Based Subsidies; 6 Can the Targeting Performance of Consumption Subsidies Be Improved?; 7 The Targeting Performance of Connection Subsidies; 8 Consumer Utility Subsidies as Instruments of Social Policy; 9 Beyond Subsidies-Other Means of Achieving Sectoral Goals; 10 Conclusions
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AppendixesBibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-6342-5
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-6342-3
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