Price reform in Kuwait’s electricity and water: assessing the benefits

Journal article

Kuwait’s electricity and water sector has been in disarray for several years, struggling with several decades of fast-rising demand resulting from industrialization, rapid population growth, rising living standards amongst its citizens, as well as the artificially low consumer prices set by the government. The country’s electricity demand has been growing at an impressive rate, estimated at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent between 1999 and 2009, and its per capita electricity consumption has ex...

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Authors: Fattouh, B; Mahadeva, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Journal: Oxford Energy Forum
• Volume: 96
• Issue: May 2014
• Pages: 30-32
• ISSN: 0959-7727
• Keywords: OIES