Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Investment and Reform Needs -- Competition Rules and Regulatory Design -- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Linkages between Infrastructure Reforms and Poverty -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Microeconomic Linkages --...

Drawing on cases from electricity distribution and other infrastructure industries, and from experiences spanning Asia, Africa and Latin America, this book examines new business models to bring basic utility services to the four billion people comprising the base of the socio-economic pyramid....