Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has …-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS) distribution campaigns, few studies have shed light on the barriers to, the … recent strand of research, trying to fill these gaps. We focus on the demand-side and household perspective. Our main …

electricity we consider as outcomes labour markets, time allocation, household welfare (consumption, income, schooling and health …Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has … review the literature on existing impact evaluation of access to electricity and modern cooking facilities. For access to …

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We … provide experimental evidence on the revealed willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three types of off-grid solar electricity devices …

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We … provide experimental evidence on the revealed willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three types of off-grid solar electricity devices …

off-grid solar electrification to a grid extension policy. Our findings suggest that, for most of rural Africa, off …The cost of providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is significant. High … electricity, but not enough to reach cost-covering prices. Randomly assigned payment periods do not alter this finding. We …

Africa, at least in the shorter run. In many cases, the low levels of electricity consumption can also be served by low …The investment requirements to achieve the United Nations’ universal electricity access goal by 2030 are estimated at … 640 billion US Dollars. The assumption underlying this goal is that electrification contributes to poverty alleviation in …

indicate very low household willingness-to-pay for electricity access, and that willingness-to-pay diminishes as households …-grid solar technologies in programs to provide household electricity to the poor in rural areas …Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid …

Increasing electricity access remains a challenge, particularly in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This study … ländlichen Gebieten in Afrika südlich der Sahara. Diese Studie untersucht die Situation in Tansania, wo Anschlussquoten in … examines the case of Tanzania, where rural connection rates remain low even among households residing 'under the grid', and …

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

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