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The InfoShop and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| (Embedded image moved to | The Challenge of Rural |
| file: pic23826.jpg) | Electrification: |
| | Strategies for Developing |
| | Countries |
| | (a copublication with RFF |
| | Press) |
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| | Edited by Douglas F. Barnes |
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| | Written by development experts |
| | ranging in expertise from |
| | engineering to economic |
| | history, this book demonstrates |
| | that there are major |
| | opportunities to increase the |
| | pace and widen the scope of |
| | rural electrification. Case |
| | studies of successful rural |
| | electrification programs in |
| | Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa |
| | Rica, Ireland, Mexico, the |
| | Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, |
| | and the United States will be |
| | of interest to a broad range of |
| | policy makers, development |
| | professionals, and community |
| | advocates. The book confirms |
| | that there is not one way to |
| | accomplish rural |
| | electrification, but an |
| | underlying set of principles |
| | that should be followed in |
| | order to reach the 1.6 billion |
| | people currently without access |
| | to electricity services. |
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Tuesday, October 9th
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
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Introduced by
Jamal Saghir
Jamal Saghir is Director of the Energy, Transport and Water
department in the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency of the
World Bank and Chair of the Energy and Mining, Transport, and Water
Sector Boards. Mr. Saghir joined the Bank in 1990 as a Financial
Officer specializing in private sector development, privatization
and restructuring assignments. He became Principal Private Sector
Development Specialist in 1997, and was appointed Sector Manager in
the Infrastructure Development Group in MENA, in 1999.
Presented by
S. Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is Sector Manager for Energy for the Africa Region at the
World Bank. His 15+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Project
Leader at the Bank builds upon 10 years of experience in development
and public administration in India. Mr. Iyer?s Bank career spans
projects in the South Asia and Africa regions, covering the full
range of energy sector activities from renewable and household
energy to large scale oil/gas, electricity generation, transmission,
and distribution.
Elizabeth Cecelski
Elizabeth Cecelski (Co-author) has worked for more than 25 years on
rural electrification and rural development and serves on the
3-member Technical Advisory Group for the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program. She was an energy economist at Resources for the
Future and later worked in the Rural Employment Policies Branch of
the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. She is a founding
member of the Advisory Group and technical adviser for ENERGIA, the
International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.
Douglas F. Barnes
Doug Barnes is a Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program and has been working in rural and
urban development for over 25 years. Mr. Barnes has published
extensively on the topic, and led efforts to develop a rural energy
strategy at the World Bank Group. Before joining the World Bank, he
worked at the Center for Energy Policy Research at Resources for the
Future. He recently coauthored The Urban Energy Transition: Energy,
Poverty and the Environment in the Developing World and
Environmental Health and Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala.
Moderated by
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Ede Ijjasz is the manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). These
are global partnership programs administered by the World Bank and
supported by 14 donor countries. Prior to joining the World Bank,
Mr. Ijjasz worked in environmental consulting. He is currently a
lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Master?s Program of
Environmental Science and Policy, in the area of contaminant fate
and transport modeling and policy.
For more information or to order the book, please visit:
http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/RuralElectrification.cfm
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About the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
ESMAP is a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World
Bank and established in 1983. The Program helps build consensus and
provides policy advice on sustainable energy development to
governments of developing countries and economies in transition.
ESMAP promotes the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic
growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work applies to
low-income, emerging, and transition economies and contributes to
the achievement of internationally agreed development goals.
For more information, visit: www.esmap.org
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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