Rural Infrastructure from a World Bank Perspective: A Knowledge Management Framework (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development.) PDF
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Rural Infrastructure From a World Bank Perspective : A Knowledge Management title: Framework Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development author: Pouliquen, Louis Y. publisher: World Bank isbn10 | asin: 0821343092 print isbn13: 9780821343098 ebook isbn13: 9780585203195 language: English World Bank, Rural development--Finance, subject Rural development projects--Finance, Infrastructure (Economics)--Finance. publication date: 1998 lcc: HG3881.5.W57P68 1999eb ddc: 362.1/532 World Bank, Rural development--Finance, subject: Rural development projects--Finance, Infrastructure (Economics)--Finance. Page i Rural Infrastructure from a World Bank Perspective A Knowledge Management Framework Louis Y. Pouliquen Copyright © 1999 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing February 1999 This report has been prepared by the staff of the World Bank. The judgments expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors or of the governments they represent. The material in this publication is copyrighted. The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission promptly. Permission to photocopy items for internal or personal use, for the internal or personal use of specific clients, or for educational classroom use, is granted by the World Bank, provided that the appropriate fee is paid directly to Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, U.S.A., telephone 978-750-8400, fax 978-750-4470. Please contact the Copyright Clearance Center before photocopying items. For permission to reprint individual articles or chapters, please fax your request with complete information to the Republication Department, Copyright Clearance Center, fax 978-750-4470. All other queries on rights and licenses should be addressed to the World Bank at the address above or faxed to 202-522-2422. Cover photograph: Dogon women and handpump, by Curt Carnemark, Mali, 1990. Louis Y. Pouliquen is the former director of the Transportation, Water and Urban Development Department in the World Bank. Now retired, he is a consultant for the Office of the Director in the same department. Library Of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data Pouliquen, Louis Y. Rural Infrastructure From A World Bank Perspective: A Knowledge Management Framework / Louis Y. Pouliquen. P. Cm.(Environmentally And Socially Sustainable Development. Rural Development) Includes Bibliographical References. ISBN 0-8213-4309-2 1. World Bank. 2. Rural DevelopmentFinance. 3. Rural Development ProjectsFinance. 4. Infrastructure (Economics) Finance. I. Title. II. Series: Environmentally And Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development. HG3881.5.W57P68 1998 362.1'532dc21 9845135 CIP The text and the cover are printed on recycled cycled paper, with a flood aqueous coating on the cover. Page iii Contents Foreword v Acknowledgments vi Executive Summary 1 Chapter 1 6 Introduction Purpose of the Review 7 Scope of the Review 7 Data Bases 8 Organization of the Volume 8 Chapter 2 10 The World Bank's Lending Record Sectoral Breakdown 10 Regional Breakdown 11 Trends 11 Achievements 16 Conclusions 21 Chapter 3 24 Decentralization Is Necessary Deconcentration versus Devolution 25 Balance 25 Depth of Decentralization 27 Decentralization Must Be Carefully Crafted 29 Chapter 4 31 Social Capital, Accountability, and Commitment Social Capital 31 Increasing Beneficiaries' Commitment 32 Improving Agency Commitment 34 Strengthening Interaction between Beneficiaries and 37 Agencies Policy Consistency and Continuity 39 Change Process 40 Page iv Chapter 5 43 Rural Infrastructure and Poverty Poverty Alleviation through Rural Infrastructure Is Not 43 Automatic Approaches to Poverty Alleviation 44 Chapter 6 48 Economic And Financial Issues Cross-Sectoral Priorities 49 Heavy Reliance on Beneficiaries' Preferences 49 Cost Sharing 50 Giving Beneficiaries a Choice 52 Good Information 53 Financial Replicability 53 Appendixes 1 Notes on the Database 55 2 Rural Infrastructure in World Bank Lending 57 Boxes 1 Bangladesh road network classification and 24 composition 2 Privileged, intermediate, and latent groups 28 3 Rural Electrification Cooperatives 36 Figures 1 Lending by sector, cumulative fiscal 1972-96 10 2 Lending by region, cumulative fiscal 1970-96 11 3 Volume of lending by fiscal year as a function of 12 share of rural infrastructure component in total project cost A2.1 World Bank lending, by number of projects, 57 1970-96 A2.2 World Bank lending, by commitments, 1970-96 57 A2.3 Number of Bank operations with rural 58 infrastructure, 1970-96 Tables 1 Trend in number of projects 12 2 Dominant types of infrastructure 13 3 Objectives of rural infrastructure component 14 4 Financial objectives in selected fiscal year periods, 14 1974-96 5 Decentralization objectives 15 6 Technical objectives 16 7 Physical achievements 18 8 Physical achievement by sector, fiscal 1984-86 19 9 Sustainability ratings of projects, fiscal 1984-86 20 10 Sustainability by sector, fiscal 1984-96 20 11 Decentralization objective 25 12 Responsibility by level of government and 27 beneficiaries 13 Average beneficiaries' contribution to investment 33 cost 14 Number of projects with financial contributions 51 from various sources 15 Pricing 52
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