| Title | Financial resources and mechanisms for sustainable development : overview of current issues and developments |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 1994 |
| Authors | World Bank -Washington, DC, US |
| Pagination | 29 p.: 4 boxes, 9 fig., 3 tab. |
| Date Published | 1994-01-01 |
| Publisher | World Bank |
| Place Published | Washington, DC, USA |
| Keywords | environment, financing, international cooperation, policies, sanitation, unced, water costs, water supply |
| Abstract | The paper starts with a detailed discussion of the provision of water supply and sanitation services ("old agenda") and turns then to the need to address the rapid degradation of the aquatic environment, in particular in urban areas of low-income developing countries ("new agenda"). The paper then discusses the cost of providing services and how services are financed. In this context the paper looks into issues such as levels of public financing, the relationship between costs and pricing and the question of subsidies. In its final part the paper analyses the conventional views of freshwater financing and elaborates in detail on less conventional approaches ("new view of sector financing"). The paper ends with a discussion of the financing of freshwater in the Agenda 21 context. |
| Notes | 12 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 202.8 |
