Introduction

Part I: Taking Stock of Energy Poverty
1. Achieving Energy for All Will Not Cost the Earth
2. Defining, Measuring, and Tacking Energy Poverty
3. The Development Impact of Energy Access
4. The World Back's Perspective on Energy Access
5. Health Benefits from Energy Access in LMICs: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Policy Opportunities
6. Energy Poverty and Public Health: Assessing the Impacts
7. Energy and Gender
8. Beyond Basic Access: The Scale of Investment Required for Universal Energy Access
9. Energy and Water: A Critical Linkage

Part II: Lessons Learned
10. Striving Towards Development: China's Efforts
11. Indian Approaches to Energy Access
12. Modern Energy Services to Low-Income Households in Brazil: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
13. Energy Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
14. Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty Amidst Abundance
15. Global Energy Subsidies: Scale, Opportunity Costs, and Barriers to Reform
16. Is Small Beautiful?

Part III: Challenges and Policy Options
17. United States' Approaches to Expanding Energy Access
18. The Energy Access Practitioner Network
19. The Energy Plus Approach: Reduccing Poverty with Productive Uses of Energy
20. Unlocking Financial Resources
21. Alleviating Energy Poverty in Africa: A Story of Leapfrogging Localizing, and Fast-Tracking

Index