World development report 1994 : Infrastructure for development

Contents:
Definations and data notes ix;
Overview I;
1 Infrastructure: achievements, challenges, and opportunities 13;
Infrastructure's impact on development 14;
Origins of the public sector role in infrastructure 22;
The record of performance 25;
Diagnosis and directions for change 32;
2 Running public entities on commercial principles 37;
Lessons of success and failure 38;
Corporatization 40;
Focused goals and accountable management 41;
Pricing for financial independence 47;
The need for a political commitment to reform 51;
3 Using markets in infrastructure provision 52;
Unbundling services for competition 53;
The range of market alternatives 55;
Paths to market provision 64;
Conclusion 71;
4 Beyond markets in infrastructure 73;
Decentralization and participation: involving users 73;
Improving budgetary allocations 79;
Subsidies and transfers to the poor 80;
Addressing externalities 82;
Elements of infrastructure planning 84;
Conclusion 88;
5 Financing needed investments 89;
Old ways of financing infrastructureand new 89;
The spread of project financing: achievements and lessons 93;
Institutions and instruments for resource mobilization 102;
Prospects 108;
6 Setting priorities and implementing reform 109;
Choosing among alternatives: institutional options and country conditions 109;
Sectoral agendas for reform 114;
Payoffs from reform 121;
Bibliographical note 123;
Appendix: Infrastructure data 139;
World Development Indicators 151.