Despite remarkable progress during the previous decade, only about a third of Bangladesh’s households had access to electricity in 2005. The country had been suffering from unreliable power supply because of insufficient generation capacity, an inadequate transmission grid, and unbalanced distribution facilities.
In 2009, the government of Uzbekistan launched the flagship Rural Housing Scheme that channeled rural savings into housing investments and utilized local contractors and construction materials to generate jobs and stimulate the construction industry. Under the scheme, 847 houses were built in 2009 and 6,800 houses in 2010.
In 2010, Bangladesh’s electrification rate was low, and blackouts were frequent. Several initiatives were taken to add generating capacity: the government allowed the installation of rental power plants of 40–115-megawatt (MW) capacity, refurbished old gas turbines, and converted open-cycle gas turbine plants to more efficient combined-cycle power plants.
In early 2000, only 29% of Sri Lanka’s population, mostly in urban areas, had piped water services. One-quarter of the population had no access to safe sanitation.
After 22 years of conflict and insurgency, aggravated by critical deficits in power infrastructure investment and maintenance, Afghanistan had one of the lowest electrification rates in the world. In 2003, less than 5% of the country’s population had access to grid power, and per capita annual energy consumption stood at 120 kilowatt-hour (kWh).
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