Micro Infrastructure : Regulators Must Take Small Operators Seriously

Baker, Bill ; Tré ; molet, Sophie

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATIZATION;    MICRO-ENTERPRISES;    ACCESSIBLE SERVICES;    INFRASTRUCTURE;    UTILITY FUNCTIONS;   

RP-ID  :  21480

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Small-scale providers of infrastructureservices, are proving to be more responsive than utilities,to needs of poor consumers. They might be delivering waterservices by tanker, transport services by minivan, orelectricity through mini-grids, or household solar panels.They make their services affordable to the poor, by usingcheaper technology, or permitting flexible payment.Regulators are customarily hostile to these alternativeproviders. The note thus suggests that the interests of thepoor, would be better served if regulators treated them asvalid service providers, and brought them under a regulatory umbrella.