Title | Cost recoverable tariffs to increase access to basic services among poor households |
Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Chun, N |
Secondary Title | ADB Economics Working Paper Series [Asian Development Bank] |
Volume | 342 |
Pagination | v, 21 p.; 6 tab.; 3 fig. |
Date Published | 2013-03-01 |
Publisher | Asian Development Bank |
Place Published | Manila, Philippines |
Keywords | access to sanitation, access to water, cost benefit analysis, cost recovery, philippines, tariffs |
Abstract | The design of alternative tariff structures can serve as a low-cost and effective tool in achieving higher take-up of basic services among poor households while allowing the provider to recover costs. A contingent valuation survey from the Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the Asian Development Bank in Cebu, Philippines is used to show that tariff structures with a low one-time connection price and price differentiates based on wealth measures can result in a five-fold increase in the take-up of water services by poor households over the base tariff structure. More moderate impacts, however, are found for the take-up of new sanitation and sewage services. [authors abstract] |
Notes | With references on p. 21 |
Custom 1 | 127 |