Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher … these two dimensions, followed by services and agriculture. The expansion of electricity infrastructure explains about 17 …

done to accelerate access to electricity to the significant share of unserved population in rural areas …

Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little …

the links between four components of sector reform (unbundling, private sector participation, regulation, and competition … competition is not generally significant across studies. A notable feature of all of the studies is very limited testing of the …

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than … 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs … (or price differentiation). It also reflects on the extent to which current electricity tariff designs are well-suited to …