Infrastructure regulation and poverty reduction in developing countries: a review of the evidence and a research agenda
| dc.contributor.author | Parker, David | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Kirkpatrick, Colin | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Figueira, Catarina | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-26T23:02:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-26T23:02:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Poverty reduction is a primary goal of development policy. In large parts of the World people have to live on meagre incomes and have limited access to infrastructure services, such as mains water, safe sanitation, mains power supplies, maintained roads and telephones. In response, more and more infrastructure provision has been opened up to private investment over the last two decades and regulatory institutions have been introduced to protect the public interest in the absence of state ownership. In this paper the role of infrastructure regulation in poverty reduction is investigated drawing on the published evidence. The conclusion is that the evidence is both patchy and sometimes contradictory. There is mixed knowledge regarding the extent to which regulators address poverty issues and about the results of regulatory decisions. The paper concludes by proposing a future research agenda aimed at improving our understanding of the ways in which infrastructure regulation impacts on poverty, with the objective of improving actual regulatory policy in developing economies. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Parker D, Kirkpatrick C, Figueira-Theodorakopoulou C. (2008) Infrastructure regulation and poverty reduction in developing countries: a review of the evidence and a research agenda. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2008, pp. 177-188 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1062-9769 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2006.12.005 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/7072 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_UK | - |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. | en_UK |
| dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177–188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2006.12.005 | |
| dc.title | Infrastructure regulation and poverty reduction in developing countries: a review of the evidence and a research agenda | en_UK |
| dc.type | Article | - |