A Review Of World Bank Lending For Electric Power

Author : Mohan Munasinghe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Review of World Bank Lending for Electric Power written by Mohan Munasinghe and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More people worldwide have access to electric power -- but the overall performance of sector utilities is deteriorating. Bank lending should place greater emphasis on improved economic, financial, and managerial efficiency.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821323182
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Bank's Role in the Electric Power Sector written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is changing the way it does business in the energy sector. This Policy Paper is one of two that outlines the Bank's new policies for the sector. The review was prompted by concern about the effects of power generation on the environment and on populations that may be resettled to make way for projects. Another stimulus was the macroeceonomic reality of fewer investment resources in many countries. And many developing countries are becoming more receptive to reforming the way energy is produced and consumed. This paper credits the "public monopoly" approach of the last 30 years with facilitating expansion of power supplies, capturing technical economies of scale, and making effective use of scarce managerial and technical skills. Nonetheless, it recommends several new policies to improve the performance of the electric power sector in developing countries. These reforms will guide future Bank activities in the sector. Bank loans for electric power will go first to countries clearly committed to improving the performance of their power sectors. The Bank will also discourage subsidies on energy prices and will encourage private investment in utilities. And it will provide financing to help the least developed countries import power where local generation is not practical. The efficiency of production and use of electric power in developing countries is examined in a companion paper, Energy Efficiency and Conservation in the Developing World: The World Banks Role . The World Bank's Role in the Electric Power Sector is also available in Spanish: La funcion del Banco Mundial en el sector de la electricidad. Politicas para efectuar una reforma institucional, regulatoria, y financieria eficaz. (ISBN 0-8213-2451-9) / Stock No. 12451 / $7.95 / Price code 007 / Spanis

Author : Fernando Reyes Manibog
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821356937
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power for Development written by Fernando Reyes Manibog and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication evaluates the performance of the World Bank Group (WBG) during the 1990s in promoting private sector development in the electric power sector in 80 countries. Main findings include that where countries showed a commitment to advancing reforms in promoting private sector development and where programmes were properly implemented, the expected benefits were delivered. However, quality of outcomes depended on the objectives pursued and on types of assistance provided, with most countries remaining in the early stages of reform.

Author : Robert P. Taylor
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821373057
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing Energy Efficiency written by Robert P. Taylor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing and financing energy efficiency retrofits, and presents thirteen case studies to illustrate the issues and principles involved.

Author : Hugh Collier
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Electric Power written by Hugh Collier and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to describe and extract some lessons from the World Bank's lending for electric power development, to review not only the objectives the Bank has deemed important for the success of its operations in this field, but also the policies and methods it has followed to reach those objectives, and to provide some assessment of the results. The Bank is the world's largest development agency and can reasonably claim to be the most influential. It is known to have high standards of project appraisal. It also has policies and requirements that it tries to ensure are followed in the execution and operation of the projects it finances. It has gathered experience over more than thirty years with lending operations in every part of the Third World. It claims that its contribution to developing countries is not confined to the funds it makes available but that it also strengthens its borrowers' ability to carry out projects; that is, "institution building" is an important aspect of its work. What then is the result of all this activity? What policies has if followed? How well have they achieved their objective, and what does this indicate about the best methods to develop electric power? This book tries to answer, or to provide the material for an answer, to these kind of questions.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821373684
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural electrification can have many benefits-not only bringing lighting, but improving the quality of health care, spreading information and supporting productive enterprises. The extent of these benefits has been questioned, arguing that they may be insufficient to justify the investment costs. This book quantifies these benefits. It finds that the benefits can indeed be high, substantially outweighing the costs, and that consumer willingness to pay is generally sufficient to achieve financial sustainability. However, benefits could be increased further by providing smart subsidies to assist connections for poorer households, promote productive uses and further consumer education.

Author : Cheryl Payer
Publisher : New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Cheryl Payer and published by New York : Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful analysis of the Bankas own policy papers and reports, which outlines its philosophy of development and the concrete effects of its projects.

Author : Alvaro J. Covarrubias
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821336441
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lending for Electric Power in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Alvaro J. Covarrubias and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Management Programme Paper No. 19. Describes and illustrates a range of participatory strategies to assist urban managers in expanding the role and effectiveness of user participation in the provision and operation of infrastructure. The paper draws on numerous case studies to demonstrate how participation has been successful in various scenarios.

Author : Ian C. Porter
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821369869
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing A Dam Better written by Ian C. Porter and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book succinctly describes how a large hydro dam in a poor country with weak capacity was successfully prepared by a truly global development and financial partnership, by turning the natural resource curse on its head and tapping the state of the art to mitigate environmental and social impacts.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821388703
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Goal, Two Paths written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region's impressive economic growth, over 1 billion of its people still lack access to electricity and modern cooking solutions. To achieve universal access to modern energy by 2030, this book exhorts EAP countries to advance simultaneously on two paths: (1) accelerate programs for grid and off-grid electricity through appropriate policies and innovative technologies; and (2) scale up access to clean cooking fuels and efficient cooking stoves, particularly for biomass in poor rural areas.