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Is Low Coverage of Modern Infrastructure Services in African Cities Due To Lack of Demand Or Lack of Supply? / Wodon, Quentin
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Wodon, Quentin
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Markets.
- Area.
- Assets.
- Bills.
- Capacity constraints.
- Census data.
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Connection charges.
- Consumers.
- Currencies and Exchange Rates.
- Deficits.
- Development policy.
- Distribution of wealth.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Geographical Information Systems.
- Households.
- Housing and Human Habitats.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- International Economics and Trade.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Quality of service.
- Scatter plot.
- Scatter plots.
- Supply side.
- Supply-side.
- Town Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Urban areas.
- Water networks.
- Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Wealth.
- Weights.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Markets.
- Area.
- Assets.
- Bills.
- Capacity constraints.
- Census data.
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Connection charges.
- Consumers.
- Currencies and Exchange Rates.
- Deficits.
- Development policy.
- Distribution of wealth.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Geographical Information Systems.
- Households.
- Housing and Human Habitats.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- International Economics and Trade.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Quality of service.
- Scatter plot.
- Scatter plots.
- Supply side.
- Supply-side.
- Town Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Urban areas.
- Water networks.
- Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Wealth.
- Weights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2009
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- A majority of sub-Saharan Africa's population is not connected to electricity and piped water networks, and even in urban areas coverage is low. Lack of network coverage may be due to demand or supply-side factors. Some households may live in areas where access to piped water and electricity is feasible, but may not be able to pay for those services. Other households may be able to afford the services, but may live too far from the electric line or water pipe to have a choice to be connected to it. Given that the policy options for dealing with demand as opposed to supply-side issues are fairly different, it is important to try to measure the contributions of both types of factors in preventing better coverage of infrastructure services in the population. This paper shows how this can be done empirically using household survey data and provides results on the magnitude of both types of factors in explaining the coverage deficit of piped water and electricity services in urban areas for a large sample of African countries.
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