Financial Viability of the Electricity Sector in Developing Countries: Recent Trends and Effectiveness of World Bank Interventions

This learning product aims to provide lessons from experience about successful practices related to World Bank Group interventions during fiscal years (FY) 2000-15 in supporting client countries for improving the financial performance and long-term viability of their electricity sectors. Lessons were derived primarily from evaluated electricity sector investment projects that contain components and covenants for sector financial performance and viability and development policy operations (DPOs) with electricity sector financial viability objectives.