Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

The author reviews trends in rural electrification over the past 30 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it is shown that motivations for rural electrification programs have evolved significantly over the years, following changes in development paradigms. The author finds, however, that knowl...

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Main Author:	Bernard, Tanguy
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2013
Subjects:	access to electricity connected households demand for electricity electricity electricity demand electricity generation electricity generation capacity employment energy consumption fuel grid extension kerosene kilowatt-hour modern world power power generation power sector Rural Electrification source of energy wood fuels
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15346

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spelling	okr-10986-153462021-04-23T14:03:22Z Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa Bernard, Tanguy access to electricity connected households demand for electricity electricity electricity demand electricity generation electricity generation capacity employment energy consumption fuel grid extension kerosene kilowatt-hour modern world power power generation power sector Rural Electrification source of energy wood fuels The author reviews trends in rural electrification over the past 30 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it is shown that motivations for rural electrification programs have evolved significantly over the years, following changes in development paradigms. The author finds, however, that knowledge of the impact of this has only marginally improved: low connection rates and weak productive utilization identified in the 1980s remain true today, and impacts on such dimensions as health, education, or income, though often used to justify projects, are largely undocumented. Indeed impact evaluations are methodologically challenging in the field of infrastructures and have been limited thus far. Nevertheless examples of recent or ongoing impact evaluations of rural electrification programs offer promising avenues for identifying both the effect of electricity per se and the relative effectiveness of approaches to promoting it. 2013-08-26T17:04:51Z 2013-08-26T17:04:51Z 2012-02-01 Journal Article World Bank Research Observer 1564-6971 doi:10.1093/wbro/lkq008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15346 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Journal Article Sub-Saharan Africa
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spellingShingle	access to electricity connected households demand for electricity electricity electricity demand electricity generation electricity generation capacity employment energy consumption fuel grid extension kerosene kilowatt-hour modern world power power generation power sector Rural Electrification source of energy wood fuels Bernard, Tanguy Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	The author reviews trends in rural electrification over the past 30 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it is shown that motivations for rural electrification programs have evolved significantly over the years, following changes in development paradigms. The author finds, however, that knowledge of the impact of this has only marginally improved: low connection rates and weak productive utilization identified in the 1980s remain true today, and impacts on such dimensions as health, education, or income, though often used to justify projects, are largely undocumented. Indeed impact evaluations are methodologically challenging in the field of infrastructures and have been limited thus far. Nevertheless examples of recent or ongoing impact evaluations of rural electrification programs offer promising avenues for identifying both the effect of electricity per se and the relative effectiveness of approaches to promoting it.
format	Journal Article
author	Bernard, Tanguy
author_facet	Bernard, Tanguy
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title	Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	impact analysis of rural electrification projects in sub-saharan africa
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2013
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Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

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