Identifying Traditional andNon-traditional Mechanisms for Reaching the Poor in Infrastructure Services

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY;    ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE;    ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES;    ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION;    ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY;   

RP-ID  :  70848

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The improvement of infrastructureservices has proven to be a powerful tool in povertyalleviation initiatives. Providing people with access tobasic and reliable infrastructure services are tools forimproving their standard of living and rising theirproductivity-thus endowing them with the opportunity forgrowth. This work aims to document the existing traditionaland non-traditional mechanisms used by Latin America and theCaribbean (LAC) to reach the poor in infrastructure accessand affordability, and to provide factual anecdotal casestudies that represent this situation at a country,community, and utility specific/sensitive level. Thespecific objectives are: 1) to identify traditional andalternate mechanisms for targeting the poor or thosedesigned by the poor in order to gain access to and maintaininfrastructure services; and b) to design a framework ofanalysis in order to understand and analyze the variouscomponents that account for the traditional andnon-traditional tools used to reach the poor (includingsocial tariffs, alternative technology, community driven andmanaged activities, etc). Overall, the goal of this reportis to provide a comprehensive description of pro-poorinfrastructure practices at the regional level and topresent various case studies that account for theheterogeneity of pro-poor mechanisms in LAC whethertraditional or alternate/innovative.