relationship between electricity access, economic development, and poverty reduction is well established. The SDGs framed access to … deprived. Directly or otherwise, access to electricity results in progress in all dimensions of human welfare and development … electricity access and the human development index (HDI) …

A reliable supply of electricity is essential for economic development, and developing countries across the world have … competition continue to lag behind other reforms, such as allowing independent power producers and establishing electricity …

only when the poor have access to electricity. From a policy-making perspective, this implies that the reforms need to be …

generation and distribution, and eventually the introduction of competition into power generation and even retail services …