Energy Services for the World's Poor

Access to efficient, sustainable energy services-and sectoral reforms that facilitate efficiency and improved access-have a key role to play in alleviating poverty in developing countries. The central objective of the Energy and Development Report 2000 will be to cast light on this linkage, and to inform and stimulate debate on the agenda for making energy policies and energy reforms increasingly effective in reaching low-income households. The focus of the Report is three-fold: * A review of the state of play and role of access to efficient, sustainable energy services in poverty alleviation, and the role of energy sector reforms in this context; * reform elements that can assist in improving service options for the poor, including a survey of promising technological and institutional developments in the sector, and case studies of promising innovative approaches; * a summary discussion of key policy instruments and challenges in implementing an increasingly "pro-poor" energy reform agenda.World Bank Staff is the author of 'Energy Services for the World's Poor' with ISBN 9780821347058 and ISBN 0821347055.