electricity accessible to large numbers of currently un-served urban and rural people. For the household sector, there is no … question that improved access to electricity will dramatically improve the quality of life, through superior electric lighting … and the capability to use modern, more efficient appliances. Electricity, however, is unlikely to make even a dent in the …

of several components: a national review of household energy programs; an evaluation of national sanitation programs; and …

"This paper critically reviews existing energy demand forecasting methodologies highlighting the methodological … diversities and developments over the past four decades in order to investigate whether the existing energy demand models are … and end-use accounting, are used in the existing energy demand models. Although energy demand models have greatly evolved …

likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption … and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water. Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much …

that poor households benefit disproportionately from water and electricity subsidies, that they are well-targeted to the … subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world …