Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing instruments and sources. The pro-poor public-private partnership model is one useful vehicle for raising capital to finance projects. Five...

Drawing from scholarship in community governance and common pool resources. as well as field research in 10 Asian countries, this article offers “design principles” or “ideal conditions” for overcoming the barriers to renewable energy in developing countries

This review specifically investigates the concepts of energy poverty and energy ladders. It provides the most current available data on energy poverty, electrification, and dependency on biomass fuels for cooking. It elaborates on the relationship between energy access and millennium development...