Handshake, No. 13 (April 2014)
This issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the power sector, brings diverse expert voices together to discuss how to increase access to energy in developing countries. Features on hydropower and renewables together with exam...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/04/19456522/handshake-ifcs-quarterly-journal-public-private-partnerships-13 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22245 |
| Summary: | This issue of Handshake, focused
on public-private partnerships in the power sector, brings
diverse expert voices together to discuss how to increase
access to energy in developing countries. Features on
hydropower and renewables together with examples from Africa
and Latin America provide an up-to-the-minute look at one of
the most important and rapidly evolving sectors today. This
issue includes the following headings: power and mining:
digging deep to power up; market mover: intraday electricity
trading; timeline to transformation: Nigerias privatization;
energy for development: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MITs) new research; and interview: United Nation
(UN) sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL) special
representative Kandeh Yumkella. Whats it like to be
energy-poor? Kandeh Yumkella, Special Representative of the
United Nations Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for
All, answers that question and many more in this issue of
Handshake. Yumkella recalls his own experiences in Sierra
Leone to illustrate the link between energy poverty and
income poverty and explains how PPPs can help. |
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