After almost a decade of high-level efforts to bring electricity tariffs closer to the cost of supply, India has barely made a dent in the long-standing and increasingly uneconomical practice of subsidizing power for irrigation. Progress has been slowed by concern that higher tariffs would harm...

This study presents the results of a survey and analysis of the data available on private participation in the power sector in the period 1990-2002, pointing to a series of preliminary findings, and identifies areas where deeper policy analysis is needed so that modalities for public-private...