Infrastructure - Economics, International Business - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Infrastructure - broadly defined as electric power, irrigation, transport, telecommunications, water supply, and sanitation - will play a key role in facilitating the resumption and acceleration of growth in developing countries. This study analyzes a number of issues that are common to all infrastructure sectors. Some, such as the reliability of infrastructure servies, emerge from the need to adapt those services to the stricter requirements of an open economy and to improve their performance. But most of the issues emerge from exploring the specific implications for infrastructure of the changing role of the private sector and competitive markets in the provision and regulation of infrastructure services. A dominant theme arising from this analysis is the need to reorient thinking about infrastructure away from the traditional emphasis on supply toward demand considerations and the quantitative but also qualitative needs of users, clients, and beneficiaries. The study summarizes much of the background work undertaken for a sectoral policy review of infrastructure. It makes several operational recommendations and proposes research priorities.Book Details
Published
December 31, 1992
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1992.
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780821321935