1st Edition
The Challenge of Rural Electrification Strategies for Developing Countries
By Douglas F. Barnes
Copyright 2007
366 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity... Read more
1. The Challenge of Rural Electrification
2. The Cooperative Experience in Costa Rica
3. Power and Politics in the Philippines
4. Rural Poverty and Electricity Challenges in Bangladesh
5. Public Distribution and Electricity Problem Solving in Rural Thailand
6. From Central Planning to Decentralized Electricity Distribution in Mexico
7. Electricity and Multisector Development in Rural Tunisia
8. Rural Electricity Subsidies and the Private Sector in Chile
9. National Support for Decentralized Electricity Growth in Rural China
10. The New Deal for Electricity in the United States: 1930-1950
11. Electricity For Social Development in Ireland
12. Meeting the Challenge of Rural Electrification
Biography
Douglas F. Barnes is a senior energy specialist in the Energy Strategy Management Assistance Program of the Energy and Water Department of the World Bank, and a senior research scientist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Also by Douglas F. Barnes, The Urban Household Energy Transition: Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World.
'A timely, well-written, and exhaustive account of successful programs. The electrification of rural areas in the developing world attracts much attention from governments, the development community, electricity companies, and other organizations. A must read for all who are involved.' Adriaan N. Zomers, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation 'A magisterial appraisal of what works in rural electrification. Barnes and his colleagues have assembled a definitive volume of studies on the most successful cases, including widely admired experiences such as China and Costa Rica in recent decades and the United States in an earlier time, as well as lesser-known yet equally informative cases such as Tunisia, the Philippines, and Ireland.' David Victor, Stanford Law School
