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Making Infrastructure Work for the Poor
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| Unless the world's poor—from South Asia to Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa—gain greater access to transport, electricity, water and telecommunications, the likelihood of achieving the internationally agreed goal of cutting extreme poverty in half by 2015 will remain in serious doubt. Related goals include ensuring universal primary education, improving the living conditions of slum dwellers, bolstering the level of girls in school, reducing child mortality, combating HIV/AIDS and ensuring environmental sustainability. According to the World Bank, a doubling in official development assistance, combined with increased private sector investment, is needed to finance infrastructure and help meet universally agreed Millennium Development Goals. |
 Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform
Antonio Estache, Vivien Foster, and Quentin Wodon, 2002 (6066K PDF)
Making Infrastructure Reform Work for the Poor (515K PDF)
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