Resources
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Output-Based Aid in Infrastructure: A Tool for Reducing the Impact of Corruption
Corruption in infrastructure leads to big losses. Estimates of the share of construction spending lost to bribe payments around the world range from 5 percent to more than 20 percent. It is important to reduce the financial cost of corruption by limiting bribe payments. But even more important…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy, Water and Sanitation
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Output-based aid in Uganda: Bringing Communication Services to Rural Areas
In 1999, Uganda had achieved a national teledensity (fixed and mobile) of about one telephone per 100 inhabitants, slightly above the average for Sub- Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa). But with most phone lines concentrated in the Kampala area, rural teledensity was far lower. Indeed,…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy, Telecommunications
Region: Africa
Country: Uganda
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OBA in Senegal: Designing Technology-Neutral Concessions for Rural Electrification
Nationwide, only 30 percent of households in Senegal have access to electricity. Rural electrification is even lower at 12.5 percent of households, and limited to areas around large population centers and some tertiary centers. Once connected, most rural households would likely be willing and…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Africa
Country: Senegal
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OBA in Senegal: Designing Technology-Neutral Concessions for Rural Electrification
Nationwide, only 30 percent of households in Senegal have access to electricity. Rural electrification is even lower at 12.5 percent of households, and limited to areas around large population centers and some tertiary centers. Once connected, most rural households would likely be willing and…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Africa
Country: Senegal
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Performance-based Contracting in Health: The Experience of Three Projects in Africa
Performance-based contracting in health is an example of an output-based approach to improving health service delivery. In 2003 and 2004, GPOBA supported the design of three output-based aid (OBA) schemes using performance-based contracting in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda…
Date: 2008
Tags: Health
Region: Africa
Country: Congo Democratic Republic, Rwanda, Uganda
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Performance-based Contracting in Health: The Experience of Three Projects in Africa
Performance-based contracting in health is an example of an output-based approach to improving health service delivery. In 2003 and 2004, GPOBA supported the design of three output-based aid (OBA) schemes using performance-based contracting in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda…
Date: 2008
Tags: Health
Region: Africa
Country: Congo Democratic Republic, Rwanda, Uganda
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Output-Based Aid in Mongolia: Expanding Telecommunications Services to Rural Areas
Access to telecommunications services has been extremely limited in the remote and sparsely populated areas of Mongolia. Several factors have conspired against achieving universal access on a purely commercial basis—the country’s vast and challenging geography, the nomadic lifestyle of the rural…
Date: 2008
Tags: Telecommunications
Region: East Asia and Pacific
Country: Mongolia
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Output-Based Aid in Mongolia: Expanding Telecommunications Services to Rural Areas
Access to telecommunications services has been extremely limited in the remote and sparsely populated areas of Mongolia. Several factors have conspired against achieving universal access on a purely commercial basis—the country’s vast and challenging geography, the nomadic lifestyle of the rural…
Date: 2008
Tags: Telecommunications
Region: East Asia and Pacific
Country: Mongolia
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Output-based Aid in Colombia: Connecting Poor Households to Natural Gas Service
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia. Compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging. But even though gas is more affordable, connection fees can put the cost of…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Colombia
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Output-based Aid in Colombia: Connecting Poor Households to Natural Gas Service
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia. Compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging. But even though gas is more affordable, connection fees can put the cost of…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Colombia