Energy services for the world's poor : energy and development report 2000 / [edited by Penelope J. Brook and Suzanne Smith].

"ESMAP."

"ESMAP is a global technical assistance program sponsored by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme"--Title page verso.

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 'Energy Services for the World's Poor' is 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 this 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; b) 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; c) a summary discussion of key policy instruments and challenges in implementing an increasingly "pro-poor" energy reform agenda.