After decades of intensive and expensive efforts to help the "energy poor" in developing countries, there is little to show for it all. As the World Energy Assessment (WEA), a joint effort by the United Nations and the World Energy Council, recently pointed out, "The current energy system is not sufficiently" reliable or affordable to support widespread economic growth. The productivity of one-third of the world's people is compromised by lack of access to commercial energy, and perhaps another third suffer economic hardship and insecurity due to unreliable energy supplies."
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