Drawing on the Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note reviews developments in the electricity sector in 2003. Data for the year show that total investment in electricity projects with private participation amounted to US$14 billion. Private activity grew...

This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investments and electricity poverty in Brazil in the period 1992-2021. With the opening up of the Brazilian economy in the 1990s policy makers expected that foreign investment would contribute to the development...