Documents et rapports

Cost recovery and financial viability of the power sector in developing countries : a literature review (anglais)

The financial viability of the power sector is a prerequisite for attracting the investment needed to ensure reliable energy supply, meet universal access targets, and hasten the clean energy transition...

Charting the diffusion of power sector reforms across the developing world (anglais)

Some 25 years have elapsed since international financial institutions espoused a package of power sector reform measures that became known as the Washington Consensus. This package encompassed the establishment...

Kenya - Electricity Expansion : P103037 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 11 (anglais)

Double dividend : power and agriculture nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent...

Regulatory indicators for sustainable energy : a global scorecard for policy makers (anglais)

Energy is at the forefront of the development agenda. Recognizing energy's vital role in development and prosperity, the world has committed to Sustainable Development Goal 7 to "Ensure access to affordable...

Kenya - Electricity Expansion : P103037 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10 (anglais)

Kenya - KE Electricity Modernization Project : P120014 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 03 (anglais)

Kenya - KE Electricity Modernization Project : P120014 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

Kenya - Electricity Expansion : P103037 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (anglais)

Kenya - KE Electricity Modernization Project : P120014 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

Le potentiel transformateur de l'industrie minière : une opportunité pour l'électrification de l'Afrique subsaharienne (français)

Africa needs power, power to enhance the welfare of its people and expand its economies. But Sub-Saharan Africa's power sector has the lowest generation capacity in the world. Two-thirds of the regional...

Elite capture : residential tariff subsidies in India (anglais)

India - home to one of the world's largest populations without electricity access - has set the ambitious goal of achieving universal electrification by 2017. 311 million people, a quarter of its population...

Beyond crisis : the financial performance of India's power sector (anglais)

At the end of 2011, the Indian power sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the central government. Bankrupt state power distribution...

Power for all : electricity access challenge in India (anglais)

India has led the developing world in addressing rural energy problems. By late 2012, the national electricity grid had reached 92 percent of India’s rural villages, about 880 million people. In more remote...

The power of the mine : a transformative opportunity for Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

Africa is blessed with energy resources yet they go largely untapped. As a result, only one in three Africans has access to energy, which stymies economic growth on the continent and seriously limits human...

Scaling up access to electricity : the case of Rwanda (anglais)

This knowledge note is the third of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Rwanda’s rapid achievements in expanding access to electricity after...

More power to India : the challenge of electricity distribution (anglais)

This report assesses progress in implementing the government of India's power sector reform agenda and examines the performance of the sector along different dimensions. India has emphasized that an efficient...

Tracking access to electricity (anglais)

Access to electricity in flexible, reliable, and sustainable forms brings a range of social and economic benefits, enabling people to leap from poverty to a better future, enhancing the quality of household...

Tracking access to nonsolid fuel for cooking (anglais)

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2012 about 4.3 million deaths occurred because of exposure to household air pollution caused by smoke from the incomplete combustion of fuels such as wood...

Handshake : IFC's quarterly journal on public-private partnerships (13) (anglais)

The latest issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the power sector, brings diverse expert voices together to discuss how to increase access to energy in developing countries. Features...