final beneficiaries. The Indonesian government has proclaimed rural access to electricity as one major objective and has set …

-cost solar alternatives. To ensure cost-efficient usage of public investments into rural electrification, we call for careful …

of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural …

rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity and fertility for urban households …, contrasted by a negative relationship for rural households. This dichotomy is suggested to reflect the influences of electricity …

Providing access to electricity is widely considered as a precondition for socio-economic development in rural areas of … generating purposes, the reality in rural usage patterns looks different: Electricity is often used for lighting and … from rural Senegal. We apply a new matching algorithm to control for a possible self-selection into Solar Home System …

of sustainably working mini-grid programs exist. We identify regulatory issues, low electricity demand in rural areas … for high transaction costs in rural areas and that are based on realistic demand forecasts could considerably increase the …