Cost Recoverable Tariffs to Increase Access to Basic Services among Poor Households

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The design of alternative tariff structures can serve as a low-cost and effective tool in achieving higher take-up of basic services among poor households while allowing the provider to recover costs. A contingent valuation survey from the Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the Asian Development Bank in Cebu, Philippines is used to show that tariff structures with a low one-time connection price and price differentiates based on wealth measures can result in a five-fold increase in the take-up of water services by poor households over the base tariff structure. More moderate impacts, however, are found for the take-up of new sanitation and sewage services.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ADB Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 342

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Planning Models; Planning Policy
• Subject: Asia ; Philippines ; water and sanitation services ; tariffs ; demand estimation ; contingent valuation ; Wasserversorgung ; Kanalisation ; Nachfrage ; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse ; Philippinen ; Asien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chun, Natalie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• (where): Manila
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/109470
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET