Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Units of Measure/Currency Equivalents -- Energy Conversion Factors -- Executive Summary -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- What Is the Knowledge Base? -- Study Goal and Objectives -- Principles for a Rural Energy Strategy -- Study Method -- Survey Instruments -- Structure of This Report -- CHAPTER 2 Household Energy Use -- General Consumption Patterns -- Energy for Cooking -- Energy for Lighting -- Summing Up -- CHAPTER 3 Household Energy Demand -- Expenditure Patterns -- Cooking Energy: Biomass and Its Opportunity Cost -- Lighting Energy -- Asset Ownership Patterns -- Demand for Other Energy: Quantitative Analysis -- Summing Up -- CHAPTER 4 Household Gains from Energy Use -- Biomass Cooking: From Traditional to Modern Energy -- From Kerosene to Electric Lighting -- From Manual to Mechanized Farming -- Overall Income Gains: Moving Up the Energy Ladder -- Summing Up -- CHAPTER 5 Energy Consumption and Rural Production -- Enterprise Types and Distribution -- Growth-Center Microenterprises -- Home and Village Enterprises -- Enterprise Energy Demand and Profitability: A Quantitative Analysis -- Energy for Farming -- Summing Up -- CHAPTER 6 Institutional Framework for Rural Energy Supply -- Institutional Challenges and Potential -- Building an Integrated Approach -- CHAPTER 7 Policy Recommendations -- Problems and Potential of Biomass Energy -- Rural Electrification and Rural Development -- Toward Policies for Household Petroleum Fuels -- Enhancing Rural Energy Projects, Policies, and Strategies -- The Way Forward -- ANNEXES -- ANNEX 1 Selected Tables from the Household Survey -- ANNEX 2 Statistical Models -- ANNEX 3 Consumer's Surplus as a Measure of Welfare -- References -- Glossary -- Special Report Series.