Diakité, Daouda; Semenov, Aggey; Thomas, Alban - In: Journal of Development Economics 88 (2009) 2, pp. 258-268
We consider the design of a nonlinear social tariff for residential water in Côte d'Ivoire, which is a case of a monopolistic private operator supplying a population of heterogeneous consumers. The proposed optimal tariff includes an initial "social" block with a low unit price, and higher...