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Connection Charges and Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Golumbeanu, Raluca - 2017

Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural residents. This poor performance can be linked to various factors, including political interference in utility policy, higher investment costs and lower profitability of extending service to rural...

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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal for Electricity Access -- Using a Multi-Scenario Approach to Understand the Cost Drivers of Power Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicolas, Claire Marion - 2019

This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of scenarios that combine...

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Quasi-Fiscal Deficits in the Electricity Sector of the Middle East and North Africa : Sources and Size

Camos Daurella, Daniel - 2017

The annual electricity investments needed in the Middle East and North Africa region to keep up with demand have been estimated at about 3 percent of the region's projected gross domestic product. However, in most economies of the region, the ability to make those investments is limited by...

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Taking Stock of Wholesale Power Markets in Developing Countries : A Literature Review

Rudnick, Hugh - 2019

Although many developing countries have yet to meet the considerable prerequisites for establishing wholesale power markets, a significant minority of larger middle-income countries have introduced diverse markets in the past 25 years. Cost-based pools proved particularly popular in Latin...

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Cost Recovery and Financial Viability of the Power Sector in Developing Countries : Insights from 15 Case Studies

Huenteler, Joern Torsten - 2020

This paper analyzes power utilities in 15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost recovery in the power sector and the impacts of these reforms on metrics of sector performance. The analysis finds that electricity...

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Is Cost Recovery a Feasible Objective for Water and Electricity? The Latin American Experience

Foster, Vivien - 2016

Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are...

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Falling Short : A Global Survey of Electricity Tariff Design

Foster, Vivien - 2020

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs according to a variety of important dimensions, notably...

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Universal Service Obligations in Utility Concession Contracts and the Needs of the Poor in Argentina's Privatization

Estache, Antonio - 2017

The authors summarize the main lessons emerging from Argentina's experience, including universal service obligations in … delegated to private operators. After reporting on Argentina's experience, the authors suggest some guidelines: 1) Anticipate …

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Taking Stock of the Political Economy of Power Sector Reforms in Developing Countries : A Literature Review

Lee, Alan David - 2019

The power sector reform experiences of developing countries vary greatly. To help explain this from a political economy perspective, this paper reviews several dozen statistical analyses, multi-country case studies, and development practice publications. The frame of reference is the model of...

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The Impact of Privatization on the Performance of the Infrastructure Sector : The Case of Electricity Distribution in Latin American Countries

Andrés, Luis - 2016

The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American … the first systemic analysis of the impact of privatization on the distribution of the electricity sector. Second, it … picture of the effects of privatization on consumers. Fourth, this research covers a longer period of time, and evaluates …

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