ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the extensive effort of the international community from 1970 to 2000 to use the expansion of access to urban infrastructure to alleviate urban poverty. It focuses on the experience of the World Bank which was by far the largest “urban donor” in this period. This effort is a significant example of “infrastructure for distribution”, with some notable policy accomplishments. But ultimately fell short of hopes that the project approaches described below could achieve a substantial impact on the incidence of urban poverty.
