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This paper presents the results of an evaluation of about 300 power projects financed by the World Bank and IDA between 1965 and 1983. The study shows a declining trend in power sector performance in spite of Bank involvement in the sector. It recommends greater emphasis on: improving productive and allocative efficiency; increasing incentives for enhanced utility efficiency; strengthening of power-energy-macroeconomic linkages; improving investment planning to achieve a better balance between generation and distribution, and giving greater emphasis to rehabilitation and maintenance...