http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/energizing-the-base-of-the-pyramid-scaling-up-successful-business-models-to-achieve-universal-electrificat Comments for "Energizing the Base of the Pyramid: Scaling-up Successful Business Models to Achieve Universal Electrification" en http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/energizing-the-base-of-the-pyramid-scaling-up-successful-business-models-to-achieve-universal-electrificat <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-5"><div class="flexinode--8"> <strong>Session Title: </strong><br /> Innovative Solutions</div> <div class="flexinode--12"> <strong>Date of talk or publication: </strong><br /> 2005</div> <div class="flexinode--9"> <strong>Speaker Name / Title: </strong><br /> David Jhirad &amp; Annie Woollam</div> <div class="flexinode--10"> <strong>Organization: </strong><br /> World Resources Institute</div> <div class="flexinode--11"> <strong>Description: </strong><br /> An assessment of the role of business and markets in accelerating the path out of poverty for the approximately 1.6 billion people living largely in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa who lack electricity services reveals that successful business models for delivering electricity services to poor populations in developing nations are operating on a limited scale and that significant replication will require major innovations in policy, governance, financing, and institutional delivery mechanisms. Such replication is vital to the development of such base-of-the-pyramid enterprises as connectivity, communications, media, healthcare, and financial services. <br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/energizing-the-base-of-the-pyramid-scaling-up-successful-business-models-to-achieve-universal-electrificat#comment Energy Strategy Successful Models Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:37:29 -0500 John Paul 1896 at http://www.nextbillion.net