Setting User Charges for Urban Water Supply: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District in the Philippines
Dole, David; Balucan, Edna | June 2006
Abstract
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has a sound position on user charges, a position that should guide ADB’s policy discussions with borrowing governments. ADB’s practice in reviewing tariffs covers only a few parts of ADB’s position, though, limiting ADB’s potential effectiveness in helping to improve policies. This paper gives an example of the kind of tariff review that could be the basis of policy discussions, and also of project design and analysis. We use the tariff of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District in the Philippines as an example, because the tariff meets and even goes beyond ADB’s position, and is a good model for other water tariffs to follow. The example should be useful to project teams at ADB doing sector studies and processing loans in urban water supply. The paper might also be useful to governments in ADB’s developing member countries, and to partner foreign aid organizations, to help them understand ADB’s position and good practice in urban water supply.
Citation
Dole, David; Balucan, Edna. 2006. Setting User Charges for Urban Water Supply: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District in the Philippines. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2280. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5236
Keywords
Trade Finance
Risk Financing
Regional Development Finance
Public Finance
Infrastructure Financing
Financing of Infrastructure
Financial Security
Financial Intermediation
Finance And Trade
Enterprise Financing
Trade Regulation
Trade Finance
Regional Trade Agreements
General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
Taxation
Business Financing
Investment Requirements
Capital Needs
Tax Incentives
Project Risks
Tariff agreements
Customs convetions
Import policy
Export policy
Investments
Finance
Market
Markets
Use tax
Tax administration and procedure
Taxing power
Effect of taxation
Business enterprises
Foreign trade and employment
Mentoring in business
Trade routes
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