This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household … reliability of electricity service. Gaining access to electricity combined with a reliable power supply is associated with a 17 … percent increase in income during the sample period, but gaining access to electricity alone is associated with only a 9 …

Accelerating development in Sub-Saharan Africa will require massive expansion of access to electricity -- currently …

people use electricity. As expected, users are disproportionately urban and rich. In communities with access to electricity … electricity vary in availability, with six countries allowing 30 kilowatt-hours or less of electricity usage a month at low prices … needed for electricity at the subsistence and other levels. Affordability varied across countries, with grid electricity even …

. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …

India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India … are also evident, whereby households without electricity benefit from village electrification. Wage rates were unaffected …

using rich household survey data from India. The results support that rural electrification helps to reduce time allocated …, with poorer ones having more limited use of electricity. The analysis also shows that restricted supply of electricity, due … to frequent power outages, negatively affects both household electricity connection and its consumption, thereby reducing …

survey representative of both urban and rural India. The findings suggest that in rural areas some 57 percent of households … these programs would play a significant role in reducing energy poverty in rural India …

More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries are lacking access to electricity. Based on the assumption that … electricity is a prerequisite for human development, the United Nations has proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by …

, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical … first study to estimate the annual income effects of a government-run rural livelihoods program in India, and it shows …

Achieving universal access to electricity is one of the most important energy policy goals set by governments in the … explores two underlying determinants of the heterogeneity: the quality of electricity supply and the number of years of being … potential endogeneity of electricity adoption. The analysis finds that power outages have a negative impact on almost all …