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Contents
Acknowledgments (24KB)
Foreword (30KB)
Foreword written by Jonathan Lash, president of WRI.
Executive Summary (53KB)
Discusses report\'s approach and the countries used to illustrate how the process of reforming the electricity sector\'s can support rather than hinder sustainable development outcomes.
Chapter 1. Introduction (67KB)
This introduction explains the link between electricity and sustainable development, outlines the global context for electricity reform, including the connection to globalization, and lays out the framework for the rest of the report.
Chapter 2. The changing global context for electricity reform (118KB)
Chapter 2 sets the global context in which electricity sector reforms have been proceeding. The chapter also makes the case for why electricity reform is a question of sustainable development policies and outcomes.
Chapter 3. Argentina: market-driven reform of the electricity sector (117KB)
Assesses whether reformers responded to sustainable development concerns when they established the direction of reform, in its subsequent implementation, and in follow-on efforts to introduce additional reform.
Chapter 4. India: Electricity reform under political constraints (129KB)
This study of the political economy of decisionmaking seeks to go beyond this dichotomy to understand how public benefits can be promoted in a post-reform sector.
Chapter 5. Indonesia: Electricity reform under economic crisis (122KB)
Uses Indonesia to illuminate constraints on the inclusion of environmental objectives and other elements of the public benefits agenda in electricity sector reform, as well as limitations on the leadership of international donor agencies in this arena.
Chapter 6. Bulgaria: Supply-led versus efficiency-led electricity reform (107KB)
Access to electricity in Bulgaria is more or less assured, and the country has surplus generation capacity. In addition, Bulgaria bears significant international environmental commitments that raise the profile of environmental concerns.
Chapter 7. Ghana: Achieving public benefits by default (115KB)
Ghana has a relatively small electricity sector, consisting mainly of two large public corporations. Reform in Ghana has posed both institutional and technical challenges.
Chapter 8. South Africa: Electricity reform with a human face? (331KB)
Ongoing debate over the electricity sector’s ultimate governance structure reflects a broader, national debate about how South Africa will attain its sustainable development agenda.
Chapter 9. Conclusion (89KB)
Country cases identify factors that have motivated reforms. Discusses how reforms have been shaped by politics in the sector. Examines donor agencies role in those politics. Details how public benefits concerns have been addressed in the reform process.
About the authors (49KB)