TY  - DATA
AU  - Foster,Vivien
AU  - Yepes,Tito
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Is cost recovery a feasible objective for water and electricity ? the Latin American experience
T2  - Policy research working paper
AV  - HG3881.5.W57 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - [Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Public utilities
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
N1  - Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/28/2006; Includes bibliographical references; Also available in print
N2  - "Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns.  Social tariff schemes of various kinds are already widespread in Latin America, but they suffer from a number of design flaws.  Increasing block tariff (IBT) structures are the most prevalent form of social tariffs in the region.  These are likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water.  Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much better designed than in the case of water, with lower fixed charges, lower subsistence blocks, and steeper gradients.  A number of more sophisticated soci
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ER  -