Accounting for poverty in infrastructure reform : learning from Latin America's experience

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Investment and Reform Needs -- Competition Rules and Regulatory Design -- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Linkages between Infrastructure Reforms and Poverty -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Microeconomic Linkages -- Policy Implications -- Promoting Access -- Trends in Access Rates -- Time Frame of Benefits -- Who Has Gained Access? -- Instruments to Improve or Facilitate Access -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix 3.1. Access to Electricity, Water, and Telephone, by Country, Selected Years, 1986-96 -- Appendix 3.1. (continued) -- Appendix 3.2. Sector-Specific Access Rates by Income Deciles for Latin America, 1986- 96 -- Appendix 3.2. (continued) -- Ensuring Consumption Affordability -- Impact of Infrastructure Reform -- Improving Consumption Affordability for the Poorest -- Reducing the Costs of Service -- Facilitating Payment -- Targeting an Instrument -- Concluding Comments -- Establishing Priorities -- Diagnostic Tools for Access -- Diagnostic Tools for Affordability -- Setting Access and Affordability Priorities -- Setting Infrastructure Sector Priorities -- The Decision Tree -- General Policy Guidelines to Protect the Poor -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix 5.1. Access to Electricity and Water by Income Decile, Selected Countries and Years -- References -- Index.