Overview

This book, with its evidence and case studies from a wide variety of countries in both the Third World and the transitional economies of Eastern Europe, examines the World Bank's new energy policies. Written by well informed analysts in leading NGOs concerned with energy questions, this book seeks to add to the pressure on the Bank to shift its capital lending and policy advice in favour of sustainable energy, including serious investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and energy provision for the rural poor. The Bank has traditionally been the leading multilateral financier of energy provision. Since 1992, it has begun to implement a reform programme based on privatization of the energy sector. This book explains the historical development of the Bank's energy policies. It outlines promising initiatives within the Bank for sustainable energy and explains why these are having little impact on mainstream energy lending. It describes how and why the Bank's energy polices have actually led to an increase in fossil fuel power plants in the top-ten low income countries, while continuing to marginalize renewable energy. While not wishing to launch an ideological attack on privatization, the authors are concerned with how the Bank has allowed regulatory processes to be highjacked by vested interests. Another problem is institutional barriers within the Bank itself. While a minority of staff are genuinely concerned to implement its excellent rhetoric about sustainable development, too many retain their market-fixated approach and do not support investments oriented to renewable energy sources, energy provision in rural areas or even energy efficient technologies. This book constitutes a powerful, policy-oriented critique of the Bank which often gives an impression of talking too much and changing its behaviour too little.

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Author:   Ian Tellam
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.250kg
ISBN:  

9781856497824

ISBN 10:   1856497828
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 July 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: The Burning Issues 1. Fuelling Change 2. The World Bank and Energy Part II: World Bank Energy Policy in Practice: Country Studies 3. Cameroon 4. Kenya 5. Zimbabwe 6. China 7. India 8. Indonesia 9. Philippines 10. Bulgaria 11. Hungary 12. Lithuania 13. Ukraine 14. Brazil 15. Colombia 16. Mexico 17. Uruguay Part III: Energy Policy for the Future: Which Way Forward? 18. Which Way Forward? Annex: The Regional Banks and Energy

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Ian Tellam has worked for ten years on energy, environment and development issues in a number of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). He is currently a senior consultant in International Energy Policy with the Centre for Energy Conservation and Environmental Technology in Delft, the Netherlands, and an associate lecturer in International Environmental Policy with the Open University in the UK.

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