Output-Based Aid (OBA) and other results-based financing mechanisms are gaining popularity in the development context for many reasons, in particular, the desire to link scarce public funding with actual...
Sanitation services are beneficial for communities at large. They generate strong positive health and environmental benefits to society ('externalities'). Public financing is an important way to stimulate...
The Output-based aid (OBA) pilot in small towns in Cambodia, funded by the World Bank, was one of the first OBA water supply pilots to be initiated. The project was initially hailed as a success: there...
This paper aims to provide practical guidance on how to evaluate regulatory arrangements and adapt them to be more conducive to expanding access and improving service to poor customers. It discusses output-based...
Egypt is a country rich in natural gas. But because of the high subsidies on LPG and the relatively high connection charges for natural gas, most urban and semiurban households continue to use liquefied...
A key measure of the effectiveness of public spending on infrastructure is the extent to which it benefits poor people. In recent years policymakers and development practitioners have increasingly sought...
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...
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...
Increasing access to basic infrastructure and social services is critical to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, this is a challenge because of the gap between what...
Increasing access to basic infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, this is a challenge because of the gap between what...
This working paper presents options for using World Bank guarantee instruments to enhance the creditworthiness of government OBA payments to an infrastructure service provider. OBA payments are targeted...
Output-based aid (OBA) is a strategy for supporting the delivery of basic services- water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications, transport, education, health care- where policy concerns would justify...
This 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...