low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this study assesses the impact of transport, electricity, and water … dollar due to dryouts. Moreover, this study shows that electricity outages are causing sales losses equivalent to 82 billion … dollar a year. Firms are also incurring the costs of self-generated electricity, estimated to amount to 64 billion dollar a …

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

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 …

Access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world, although a larger proportion of the population … data to examine the determinants of, and barriers to, electricity uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa. It supplements the analysis … with qualitative fieldwork in three countries. Regarding the areas under the electricity grid, the paper follows Wodon and …

The main priority for the Democratic Republic of Congo's power sector is to increase access to electricity. The … Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country with 10 million households of which 1.6 million have access to electricity. This … makes it the third largest population in the world without access to electricity. The report explores the current state of …

product, non-agricultural gross domestic product, manufacturing value added, and capital stocks, as well as electricity … electricity consumption, measured in 10-year intervals. It is hoped that improved data from the recently launched Suomi National …

This study assesses the accuracy of time-series econometric methods in forecasting electricity demand in developing … simple heuristic models, which assume that electricity demand grows at an exogenous rate or is proportional to real gross …

. 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 …

Ministries of finance are often asked to guarantee a state-owned electricity utility's payments to an independent power …

. 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 …