| Getting the Assumptions Right: Private Sector Participation Transaction Design and the Poor in Southwest Sri Lanka (265k pdf). October 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion Paper Series, Paper No. 7. This paper investigates how a set of basic assumptions on service coverage, service levels, tariffs, and subsidies in the proposed transactions in Southwest Sri Lanka held up against consumer preferences. |
| | Taking Account of the Poor in Water Sector Regulation (1.10mb pdf). August 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 11. This note seeks to provide practical guidance on how regulatory frameworks can be designed and implemented that are more conducive to expanding access and improving service to poor customers. |
 | Lessons Learned in Infrastructure Services Provision: Reaching the Poor(208k pdf). April 2006. A key measure of the effectiveness of public spending on infrastructure is the extent to which it benefits poor people. In recent years policymakers and development practitioners have increasingly sought to understand why earlier approaches to infrastructure development often bypassed the poor or proved unsustainable. |
| | Water, Electricity and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? March 2006. Subsidies for utility customers are popular among policy makers and the general public. Despite persistent belief that subsidies favor the poor, this study shows that they actually tend to benefit the middle class and well-to-do. |
| | Poverty Dimensions of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Southwest Sri Lanka(561k pdf). February 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 8. This paper illustrates the types of information generated by household and community surveys for the purposes of establishing baselines. It provides a detailed analysis of the poor and water connections, household WTP for improved services, and distribution of water sector subsidies. |
| | The Use of Willingness to Pay Experiements: Estimating Demand for Piped Water Connections in Sri Lanka. January 2006. This paper shows how Willingness to Pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services when a private sector transaction is considered. The authors do this by presenting a casestudy from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. |
 | How can Utilities Serve Poor Communities Better? Water Week. March 2005. Session 17 presents and discusses how some utilities have successfully expanded services to the poor through innovative approaches. Approaches discussed include network (strategic mains extensions with or without social connection policies and life-line tariff strategies) and non-network based solutions. |
| | New Designs for Water and Sanitation Transactions: Making Private Sector Participation Work for the Poor (892K pdf). May 2002. The areas of reform identified for pro-poor transactions include the design of flexible, legal, and contractual frameworks. Recommendations are offered with a focus on subsidizing access (e.g. water connections) over consumption. The publication also addresses the importance of timing the reform process. |
| | Pro-Poor Regulation(139K pdf). This paper which was presented at the PPIAF/ADB Conference on Infrastructure Development - Private Solutions for the Poor: The Asian Perspective, in Manila in 2002 and discusses pro-poor regulatory design, analyzes a number of institutional solutions to delivering subsidies, and assesses the implications for subsidy delivery. |
| | Designing Direct Subsidies for the Poor--A Water and Sanitation Case Study (200k pdf). June 2000. This note illustrates how simulation techniques can be used to inform the design of direct subsidy schemes, ensuring that they are both cost-effective and accurate in reaching the target population. This approach was first used in water sector reforms in Chile in the early 1990s, allowing the price of water to fall below economic costs indiscriminately. |
| | Water Concessions: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What To Do About It (200k pdf). October 2000. Water concessions create value by boosting service coverage and quality, and by improving the efficiency of utility operations. Who wins, who loses, and by how much from these concessions depends on how the contract is designed and regulated. This Note proposes a simple exercise in modeling the distribution of benefits before a contract is awarded. |
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