Increasing access to water services: a cost-recoverable pricing model
Pricing policies can serve as a low-cost and effective tool for increasing access to water and sanitation services among poor households while allowing the provider to recover costs. An empirical model is applied to contingent-valuation survey data for water services in Cebu, Philippines. Pricing policies that utilizes a low one-time connection fee and differentiates tariffs based on wealth results in a 3 to 9-fold increase in water services access by poor households over the base pricing policy. The results provide evidence that price-discrimination techniques can be important tools toward achieving greater coverage and financial solvency of important services.
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2014
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Authors: | Chun, Natalie |
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International Journal of Water Resources Development. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0790-0627. - Vol. 30.2014, 4, p. 662-679
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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