Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...

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 --...

Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...