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Achieving universal access to electricity is one of the most important goals set for the energy sector by governments in the developing world. Electricity alone is not sufficient to spur economic growth, but it is certainly necessary. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human...
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evidence supports the logic of reforms. The authors review the empirical evidence on electricity reform in developing countries …. They find that country institutions and sector governance play an important role in the success and failure of reform. And …
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"Estache and Rossi bring new empirical evidence on the impact of the choice of ownership and regulatory regime on firms' productivity and prices paid by consumers. They collect the evidence from a sample of electricity distribution companies in Latin America. The authors rely on estimations of...
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society, unionized and influential public sector workforce, political sensitivity towards Central Governments reform program … Bengal with other states in India and attempts to highlight the positive factors, which could be considered for future reform … reform and restructuring process. West Bengal had an advantage of learning from the reform and restructuring experience in …
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This report documents the Lao People's Democratic Republic's success story in rapid national electrification integrated within a broader strategy of national and rural development. In fifteen years (1995-2009), electricity access more than quadrupled, from about 15 percent in 1995 to 69 percent...
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The Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS) Program contributed significantly to achieving near-universal access to electricity by installing over 4 million SHSs from 2003 to 2018, serving 16 percent of rural households by 2016. The government mobilized USD 683 million in loans and grants from...
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