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Reaching Unserved Communities in Africa with Basic Services : Can Small-Scale Private Service Providers Save the Day?

dc.contributor.author Kariuki, Mukami
dc.contributor.author Schwartz, Jordan
dc.contributor.author Schur, Michael
dc.date.accessioned 2012-08-13T12:57:14Z
dc.date.available 2012-08-13T12:57:14Z
dc.date.issued 2006-06
dc.description.abstract With urban and especially periurban populations set to grow at unprecedented rates in Africa, and service coverage continuing to lag, governments and donors have begun to recognize that small-scale providers have an increasingly critical role to play. They have also begun to focus on the importance of creating an environment that enables these providers to supply good quality service. Most African countries face big deficits in infrastructure, and their efforts to scale up the services of small-scale service providers may be impeded by lack of capacity or resources or even by collusion and rent seeking by larger, formal service providers. Improving or extending the services of small scale service providers must therefore be part of-not a substitute for-reform of the infrastructure sector. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/7090909/reaching-unserved-communities-africa-basic-services-can-small-scale-private-service-providers-save-day
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10731
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Gridlines; No. 9
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject BASIC SERVICES
dc.subject CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
dc.subject COLLUSION
dc.subject ELECTRICITY SECTOR
dc.subject ELECTRICITY SERVICES
dc.subject ENERGY SUPPLY
dc.subject HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTORS
dc.subject INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR
dc.subject INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
dc.subject INVESTMENT COSTS
dc.subject LARGE TOWNS
dc.subject LEGAL STATUS
dc.subject LENDERS
dc.subject LOCAL OPERATORS
dc.subject LOCAL PRIVATE OPERATORS
dc.subject LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject MIDDLE EAST
dc.subject NATIONAL UTILITIES
dc.subject NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subject NORTH AFRICA
dc.subject PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject PRIVATE INVESTMENT
dc.subject PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject PRIVATE PROVIDERS
dc.subject PRIVATE SERVICE PROVIDERS
dc.subject PUBLIC UTILITIES
dc.subject PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
dc.subject RENT SEEKERS
dc.subject RURAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subject SANITATION
dc.subject SERVICE PROVIDERS
dc.subject SMALL TOWNS
dc.subject SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
dc.subject SUPPLIERS
dc.subject TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject TRANSACTION COSTS
dc.subject URBAN CENTERS
dc.subject WATER DEPARTMENT
dc.subject WATER SUPPLY
dc.title Reaching Unserved Communities in Africa with Basic Services : Can Small-Scale Private Service Providers Save the Day? en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/7090909/reaching-unserved-communities-africa-basic-services-can-small-scale-private-service-providers-save-day
okr.globalpractice Transport and ICT
okr.globalpractice Water
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000310607_20060928134125
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 7090909
okr.identifier.report 37545
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2006/09/28/000310607_20060928134125/Rendered/PDF/375450AFR0Gridlines0901PUBLIC1.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Africa
okr.topic Infrastructure Economics and Finance :: Infrastructure Regulation
okr.topic Water Supply and Sanitation :: Town Water Supply and Sanitation
okr.topic Infrastructure Economics and Finance :: Infrastructure Economics
okr.topic Water Supply and Sanitation :: Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions
okr.topic Infrastructure Economics and Finance :: Private Participation in Infrastructure
okr.unit Public-Priv Infra Advsry Fcility (PPIAF)
okr.volume 1 of 1
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