Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Taking stock of energy poverty. Achieving energy for all will not cost the earth / Faith Birol -- Defining, measuring, and tackling energy poverty / Benjamin K. Sovacool -- The development impact of energy access / Douglas F. Barnes, Hussain Samad, and Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Mikul Bhatia, Elisa Portale, Ruchi Soni, and Nicolina Angelou -- Health benefits from energy access in LMICs: mechanisms, impacts, and policy opportunities / Nigel Bruce and Chen Ding -- Energy poverty and public health: assessing the impacts from solid cookfuel / Kalpana Balakrishnan, Zoe Chafe, Tord Kjellstrom, Thomas E. McKone, and Kirk R. Smith -- Energy and gender / Barbara C. Farhar, Beth Osnes, and Elizabeth A. Lowry -- Beyond basic access: the scale of investment required for universal energy access / Morgan Bazilian and eight others -- Energy and water: a cultural linkage / Allan Hoffman.

Part II: Lessons learned. Striving towards development: China's efforts to alleviate energy poverty / Wenke Han, Luo Zhihong, and Lijuan Fan -- Indian approaches to energy access / Debajit Palit, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya, and Akanksha Chaurey -- Modern energy services to low income households in Brazil: lessons learned and challenges ahead / Gilberto M. Jannuzzi and Jose Goldemberg -- Energy poverty in the Middle East and North Africa / Laura El-Katiri -- Energy poverty in sub-saharan Africa: poverty amidst abundance / Abeeku Brew-Hammond, Gifty Serwaa Mensah, and Owusu Amponsah -- Global energy subsidies: scale, opporunity costs, and barriers to reform / Doug Kaplow -- Is small beautiful? / Phil LaRocco.

Part III: Challenges and policy options. United States' approaches to expanding energy access / Jason E. Bordoff -- The energy access practitioner network / Richenda Van Leeuwen and Yasemin Erboy Ruff -- The energy plus approach: reducing poverty with productive uses of energy / Thiyagarajan Velumail, Chris Turton, and Nick Beresnev -- Unlocking financial resources / Xia Zizhang -- Alleviating energy poverty in Africa: a story of leapfrogging, localizing, and fast-tracking / Leila Benali and Andy Barrett.