The productive use of electricity in rural communities can contribute to significant socioeconomic development and increased welfare. The virtuous cycle of productive use of electricity assumes that ...
People desire electricity not for its own sake but for the wide-ranging services it provides from lighting, communication and entertainment, refrigeration, and cooking to space conditioning and business...
Provision of clean cooking for all is recognized as a critical cross-sectoral development issue. The potential societal benefits are enormous, particularly for public health, women’s productivity...
India has led the developing world in addressing rural energy problems. By late 2012, the national electricity grid had reached 92 percent of India’s rural villages, about 880 million people. In more...
Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural residents. This poor performance can be linked to various factors, including political interference...
This paper applies an econometric analysis to estimate the average and distribution benefits of rural electrification using rich household survey data from India. The results support that rural electrification ...
The term energy access has various connotations to energy development specialists. For this review, we define energy access as relating both to physical proximity to energy infrastructure and to the...
Access to electricity is crucial for economic development and there is a growing body of literature on the impact of rural electrification on development. However, most studies have so far relied on ...
The hallmark of the energy sector management assistance program (ESMAP) is the promotion and support of innovation and forward thinking in the energy sector. In these times, finding new solutions to...
This report begins by examining the characteristics and relative merits of living standards measurement studies (LSMS) and specialized household energy surveys. It then reviews the types of questions...
This brief is designed to illustrate in summary how a variety of countries have addressed the problems inherent in having successful rural electrification. By providing a snapshot of various programs ...
Recent statistics from the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social (MSPAS) in Guatemala indicate that between 1997 and 2000 acute respiratory infection (ARI) was the single most important cause...
In line with the UN Millennium Project more broadly, this report on energy addresses three crucial components: firstly, a rigorous understanding of the energy services that drive and, when absent, impede...
Recognition of the problem of indoor air pollution (IAP) and its deleterious effects of health is growing worldwide as efforts increase to understand and articulate the complex health-air pollution...
De acuerdo con el Proyecto del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas, en un sentido más amplio, el presente informe sobre energía aborda tres componentes fundamentales: en primer lugar, un entendimiento...
Reducing poverty in Nicaragua requires special attention to rural areas because the majority of Nicaragua's poor live in the countryside. Improving access to electricity in those areas is key to economic ...
The main objective of this study was to determine the market potential for photovoltaic systems in the remote areas of China, especially in villages without access to grid electricity. A number of photovoltaic...
Rapid population growth has resulted in deforestation and wood fuel shortages in many regions of sub - Saharan Africa. However, population density by itself does not cause household energy shortages...