Although the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continues to hold the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and has been able to maintain electricity access rates of close to hundred percent in most of its economies, it may not be in a…
The main message of this book is that there is considerable scope for improving the efficiency of electricity subsidies in Central America by better targeting them to low-income households.
This report is the first major survey of Tanzania’s mini-grid sector. In it, we shed light on lessons from Tanzania that can help accelerate mini-grid deployment across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our analysis points to three key…
The Lao People's Democratic Republic has scored a remarkable achievement. In just over two decades, from 1995 to 2017, it managed to increase national access to electricity from 16 percent to more than 90 percent of the population.
Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact,…
Many studies have estimated the amount of investment that is needed to meet energy access goals, but none have attempted to systematically analyze what finance these countries are actually committing to energy access, what is known about…