Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...

Diese Baseline-Studie porträtiert die von der Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Ruanda durchgeführte Elektrifizierungsmaßnahme 'PSP Hydro' und stellt umfassend die sozio-ökonomischen Bedingungen in der Projektregion vor Beginn der Intervention dar. Die erhobenen Daten...

Das RWI untersucht in verschiedenen Studien die Wirkungen der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Energiebereich auf die Armut. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Energienutzung und die sozio-ökonomischen Bedingungen in zwei Regionen Mosambiks, in denen von der Deutschen Gesellschaft...

Today more than 2.7 billion people rely on biomass as their primary cooking fuel, with profound implications for the environment and people's well-being. Wood provision is often time-consuming and the emitted smoke has severe health effects - both burdens that afflict women in particular. The...

With 2.7 billion people relying on woodfuels for cooking in developing countries, the dissemination of improved cooking stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an effective instrument to combat deforestation particularly in arid countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination...

Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...

Providing access to electricity is widely considered as a precondition for socio-economic development in rural areas of developing countries. While electrification interventions are often expected to reduce poverty through productive uses for income generating purposes, the reality in rural...

This paper replicates and extends the seminal paper by Dinkelman (2011) on the impacts of electrification on female employment. We revisit the validity of the identification strategy that uses the land gradient as an instrumental variable (IV). Our robustness checks cast doubt on the exclusion...