Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs

The World Bank's assistance was requested to conduct a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis assessing the direct and indirect impacts, as well as options for electricity pricing for the poor. Results of three different instruments (a small scale...

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Main Authors:	Keener, Sarah, Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna
Format:	ESMAP Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	tariff tariff reform electricity tariffs poverty incidence electricity consumption electricity demand
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/12/6835548/ghana-poverty-social-impact-analysis-electricity-tariffs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17985

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spelling	okr-10986-179852021-04-23T14:03:38Z Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs Keener, Sarah Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna tariff tariff reform electricity tariffs poverty incidence electricity consumption electricity demand The World Bank's assistance was requested to conduct a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis assessing the direct and indirect impacts, as well as options for electricity pricing for the poor. Results of three different instruments (a small scale household survey focusing on consumer and social impact assessments of tariff changes, the analysis of a an existing nationally representative household survey and a stakeholder analysis) pointed to a rather high potential of the lifeline mechanism to protect the poor, but also showed that the knowledge of this subsidy and hence its coverage is much lower in rural areas. While the poor protecting mechanism seems quite effective, broader sector reforms threaten its sustainability (i.e., allowing larger customers to directly negotiate price conditions with the electricity company might increase the pressure on tariff adjustments for other customer groups, strain utility's finances and inhibit or slow connections of less profitable customers. 2014-04-22T19:08:10Z 2014-04-22T19:08:10Z 2005-12-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/12/6835548/ghana-poverty-social-impact-analysis-electricity-tariffs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17985 English Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) Technical paper series ; no. 88 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Publications & Research :: ESMAP Paper Publications & Research Africa Africa Ghana
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description	The World Bank's assistance was requested to conduct a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis assessing the direct and indirect impacts, as well as options for electricity pricing for the poor. Results of three different instruments (a small scale household survey focusing on consumer and social impact assessments of tariff changes, the analysis of a an existing nationally representative household survey and a stakeholder analysis) pointed to a rather high potential of the lifeline mechanism to protect the poor, but also showed that the knowledge of this subsidy and hence its coverage is much lower in rural areas. While the poor protecting mechanism seems quite effective, broader sector reforms threaten its sustainability (i.e., allowing larger customers to directly negotiate price conditions with the electricity company might increase the pressure on tariff adjustments for other customer groups, strain utility's finances and inhibit or slow connections of less profitable customers.
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author	Keener, Sarah Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna
author_facet	Keener, Sarah Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna
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title	Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs
title_short	Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs
title_full	Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs
title_fullStr	Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs
title_full_unstemmed	Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs
title_sort	ghana : poverty and social impact analysis of electricity tariffs
publishDate	2014
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Ghana : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Electricity Tariffs

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