Rural Infrastructure from a World Bank Perspective: A Knowledge Management Framework (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development.)

161 Pages·1999·0.7 MB·English

by  Louis Y. Pouliquen

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
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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
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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