Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to
society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges …

This article reviews the empirical literature on women's empowerment through electricity
access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Grid-independent hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs), being eco-friendly and cost
effective, are turning out to be more effective option for the rural areas where grid power …

Since 2013, China has implemented a large-scale initiative to systematically deploy solar
photovoltaic (PV) projects to alleviate poverty in rural areas. To provide new understanding …

We present results from an experiment that randomized the expansion of electric grid
infrastructure in rural Kenya. Electricity distribution is a canonical example of a natural …

In recent years, electrification has reemerged as a key priority in low-income countries, with
a particular focus on electrifying households. Yet the microeconomic literature examining the …

Nearly 1 billion people still lack electricity access. Developing countries are investing
billions of dollars in “last-mile” electrification, although evidence on its economic impacts is …

Recent debates on how to provide electricity to the roughly one billion still unconnected
people in developing countries have identified mini-grids as a promising way forward. High …

We find that electricity use and access are strongly correlated with economic development,
as theory would suggest. Despite large empirical literatures and suggestive case evidence …