Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2017

This report aims to advance the understanding of finance directed toward the developing world’s energy sectors, covering both electricity and clean cooking. The report covers the 20 developing countries—referred to as the high-impact countries—that together are home to 80 percent of those living without access to modern energy globally. Given their weight in terms of unserved populations, they jointly provide a reasonable first-order approximation for the overall energy access situation globally.