Resources
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Output-Based Aid in Telecommunications: New Models for Universal Access in Latin America
During the 1990s many Latin American countries developed universal access programs, financed through universal service funds, to increase telecommunications access in rural and low-income areas. The mechanism most often used to allocate the funds was the minimum subsidy tender, with subsidy…
Date: 2009
Tags: Telecommunications
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Global
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Output-Based Aid in Armenia: Connecting Poor Urban Households to Gas Service
Gas-based heating offers a clean, efficient, low-cost heating solution for poor urban households in Armenia, a country with severe winters. But many low-income households cannot afford the cost of connecting to gas networks and heating facilities or the cost of heating equipment. To help these…
Date: 2009
Tags: Energy
Region: Europe and Central Asia
Country: Armenia
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Designing OBA When There is an Incumbent
This working paper aims to provide practical guidance to Government officials and others who are asked to design Output Based Aid (OBA) projects in situations in which there is an existing supplier. The focus is on water and electricity projects where there is a request for development of an OBA…
Date: 2003
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Designing OBA When There is an Incumbent
This working paper aims to provide practical guidance to Government officials and others who are asked to design Output Based Aid (OBA) projects in situations in which there is an existing supplier. The focus is on water and electricity projects where there is a request for development of an OBA…
Date: 2003
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Designing OBA When There is an Incumbent
This working paper aims to provide practical guidance to Government officials and others who are asked to design Output Based Aid (OBA) projects in situations in which there is an existing supplier. The focus is on water and electricity projects where there is a request for development of an OBA…
Date: 2003
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Techniques for Estimating the Fiscal Costs and Risks of Long-Term Output-Based Payments
Long-term commitments to make output-based payments for infrastructure can encourage private investors to provide socially valuable services. Making good decisions about such commitments is difficult, however, unless the government understands the fiscal costs and risks of possible commitments.…
Date: 2005
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Credit Enhancing Output-based Aid
This working paper presents options for using World Bank guarantee instruments to enhance the creditworthiness of government output-based aid (OBA) OBA payments to an infrastructure service provider. OBA payments are targeted, performance-based subsidies provided when full cost recovery through…
Date: 2005
Region: Global
Country: Global
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OBA Payment Mechanisms and Risk Mitigation
The paper attempts to put the observations made within Mozambique into a broader context, reflecting a wider range of payment mechanisms that have either been employed, or else could be considered, to transfer output-based aid (OBA) subsidies. It hopes to advance the understanding of the…
Date: 2004
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Regulation of Water and Sanitation Services: Getting Better Service to Poor People
Output-based aid (OBA) approaches to improving water and sanitation service can work in a variety of circumstances. Such OBA schemes require an understanding of the impact of existing regulatory arrangements have on water services to poor customers. The design of OBA schemes should therefore…
Date: 2006
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Connecting Residential Households to Natural Gas: An Economic & Financial Analysis
The natural gas market has changed considerably in Egypt the country has evolved as a major international gas exporter. Industrial customers in the domestic market are increasingly relying on natural gas to meet their energy needs. Natural gas is already used as a major source of energy and…
Date: 2006
Tags: Energy
Region: Middle East and North Africa
Country: Egypt