People and Power: Electricity Sector Reforms and the Poor in Europe and Central AsiaWorld Bank Publications, 2007 - 227 pages Empirical insights on household behavior and electricity consumption patterns in this book reveal that, in Europe and Central Asia, the erosion of tariff based subsidies has disproportionately affected the poor, while direct transfers through social benefit systems have often been inadequately targeted. The book suggests alternative strategies for achieving cost-recovery in the electricity sector in a socially and politically acceptable manner, providing lessons that are equally relevant for other utilities and regions. |
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... focus group discussions and in-depth interviews of key informants. Qualitative analysis complements the quantitative ... focus groups also helped identify the aspects of the reform program that people are particularly concerned about and ...
... focus group discussions and in-depth interviews of key informants. Qualitative analysis complements the quantitative ... focus groups also helped identify the aspects of the reform program that people are particularly concerned about and ...
Page 48
... focus group discussions across the country to understand how people viewed reform and how they were dealing with it ... discussion here compares household consumption and payment behavior between 1998 and 1999 using March 1998–November ...
... focus group discussions across the country to understand how people viewed reform and how they were dealing with it ... discussion here compares household consumption and payment behavior between 1998 and 1999 using March 1998–November ...
Page 51
... Focus group discussions suggested that one coping mechanism was to pay only a fraction of the bill, maintaining service while accumulating arrears. Another coping mechanism was to monitor consumption closely and then impose austerity ...
... Focus group discussions suggested that one coping mechanism was to pay only a fraction of the bill, maintaining service while accumulating arrears. Another coping mechanism was to monitor consumption closely and then impose austerity ...
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... focus group participants worried that utility sector improvements would be too expensive to implement and were ... discussion now turns to look more closely at the impact of the January 1999 change—from a tariff-based subsidy, in the ...
... focus group participants worried that utility sector improvements would be too expensive to implement and were ... discussion now turns to look more closely at the impact of the January 1999 change—from a tariff-based subsidy, in the ...
Page 67
... Focus group sessions suggested that households paying more to meter readers than the meter readers transfer to the utility had been a serious problem in the past, though the incidence decreased with the installation of new meters and ...
... Focus group sessions suggested that households paying more to meter readers than the meter readers transfer to the utility had been a serious problem in the past, though the incidence decreased with the installation of new meters and ...
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