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 …

In Addis Ababa, an increasing block tariff has been used to calculate households' monthly bills for electricity and … water services. This study estimates the magnitudes of the combined water and electricity subsidies received by households … with private connections to the electricity grid and piped water network in 2016, and it evaluates the distribution of …

. This paper shows that daily electricity consumption and monthly nighttime light intensity can proxy for economic activity … remained a quarter below normal levels throughout April. It recovered somewhat subsequently, but electricity consumption was on … electricity consumption halved in some, others were not affected at all. Part of the heterogeneity is explained by the prevalence …