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6 - Pricing for Poverty

Project Finance, Power Purchase Agreements and Structural Inequities in Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

Kinnari I. Bhatt
Affiliation:
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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This chapter provides further context to the impact of project finance mechanisms by examining the Ugandan Bujagali Hydroelectric Power Project referred to in the Preface. This case study is different from the others. It focusses on the interface of contractual and policy instruments with indigenous peoples’ rights to land and then casts the net wider to examine how complex pricing terms and the inequitable negotiation of concessionary power purchase agreements (PPA), in which the government is the end buyer, will have implications for overall vulnerability; for example, by locking governments into an overall bad deal in which all the risk is passed onto the state which has little control over spiralling electricity costs. Thinking about these debt contract–community linkages and what might be done within the context of an important negotiated contract such as the PPA is crucial for two reasons: that of the spread of supposedly cleaner and greener hydroelectric projects worldwide to meet energy demand and the growth of the ‘people first’ trend in public-private partnerships in the quest to mobilise the private sector towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities
Implementing Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects
, pp. 145 - 161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Pricing for Poverty
  • Kinnari I. Bhatt, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book: Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities
  • Online publication: 02 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689106.007
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  • Pricing for Poverty
  • Kinnari I. Bhatt, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book: Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities
  • Online publication: 02 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689106.007
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  • Pricing for Poverty
  • Kinnari I. Bhatt, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book: Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities
  • Online publication: 02 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689106.007
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