Estimating the Fiscal Risks and Costs of Output-Based Payments
Output-based payments are an important tool of government policy. Sometimes governments offer “output-based aid” to subsidize services sold to households. Guatemala and Mozambique, for example, subsidize new electricity connections, while Paraguay is piloting a program to subsidize new water…Date: 2005
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Other
Output-Based Aid in Water: Lessons in Implementation from a Pilot in Paraguay
Paraguay's aguateros—small private water companies— form an important part of the water sector, serving about 9 percent of the total population (or about 17 percent of those with piped water supply). But until recently they operated only in urban areas, where water resources are abundant and…
Date: 2005
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Output-based Aid in the Chad: Using Performance-Based Contracts to Improve Roads
Despite Chad's recent debut as an oil exporter, its people rank among the world's poorest. Large parts of the country are left in extreme isolation by the lack of a backbone road network that is passable year-round. To tackle the poor internal integration, the government formulated the National…
Date: 2005
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Other, Urban Transport
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
Type: OBA Working Papers
Tags: Other
Output-Based Aid - Supporting Infrastructure Delivery through Explicit and Performance-Based Subsidies
Increasing access to basic infrastructure and social services is critical to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, increasing access is a challenge because of the gap between what it costs to deliver a desired level of service and what can be funded…
Date: 2005
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy, Water and Sanitation
Output-based Aid: Supporting Infrastructure Delivery Through Explicit and Performance-based Subsidies
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 it costs to deliver a desired level of service and what can be funded through user charges.…
Date: 2005
Type: OBA Working Papers
Tags: Other
Output-based Aid in Mozambique
Mozambique’s first privately operated concession to generate, distribute, and sell electricity is now up and running in a rural area of Inhambane Province isolated from the country’s main transmission grid. The contract was won through competitive bidding by a Mozambican and South African…
Date: 2005
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy
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
Type: OBA Working Papers
Tags: Other
