Institutional Aspects, Regulation & Planning

Developing country governments can play a major role in increasing the efficiency of utilities and reducing the drain on public funds, notably through restructuring their national energy producers and improving the way they are regulated.

Efficiently run utilities facilitate budgetary reform, freeing up money for alternative investments, including in the social sector in medical facilities and schools.

While much of the focus of recent discussions has been on the power sector, the markets for fuel wood, charcoal, kerosene, coal, gas and transport fuels could also gain some cost and efficiency benefits from reform.