A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...

Review of Locked in Place: State-building and Late Industralization in India By Vivek Chibber; Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford,

This paper discusses the criticality of electricity the vital modern economic infrastucture concerning its role in and nexus with rural development. Introducing broad issues in rural infrastructure and local development, emphasis has been laid on the role of electricity and as a multi-sectoral...