Pro-Poor Electricity Provision
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Cost and Returns of Renewable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparison of Kenya and Ghana
(IDS, 2016-04)The allocation of finance for the provision of green electricity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should be informed by two questions. Which generation technologies are financially viable? And which generation technologies are ... -
Financing Universal Access to Electricity
(IDS, 2015-09)The recent emphasis on the provision of modern energy services as an important ingredient for development has improved finance availability for the goal of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL). However, existing financial ... -
Pro-Poor Access to Green Electricity in Kenya
(IDS, 2015-05)Is Kenya on track to follow an electrification strategy that is green and pro-poor? What are the main challenges to following this path? The two questions guiding this study are particularly relevant in a country with ... -
What Explains the Allocation of Aid and Private Investment for Electrification?
(IDS, 2015-03)This paper aims to inform policy looking to step up investment in the electricity sector of developing countries and align it to other development goals such as universal access to energy or sustainability. Three questions ... -
Maximisation of Benefits for the Poor of Investments in Renewable Electricity: A Policy Tool for Project Planning
(IDS, 2014-07)Energy poverty is a major development issue: nearly 1.2 billion people, or close to one-fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity. Close to 85 per cent of them live in rural areas (Banerjee et al. ... -
Strengthening the Poverty Impact of Renewable Electricity Investments: Summary of E-Discussion
(IDS, 2014-07)On 19 and 20 March 2014 IDS convened an e-discussion on ‘strengthening the poverty impact of renewable electricity investments’. The event sought to instigate a global dialogue on what is required to maximise the poverty ... -
The Evidence of Benefits for Poor People of Increased Renewable Electricity Capacity: Literature Review
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-09)Lack of access to electricity is seen as a major constraint to economic growth and increased welfare in developing countries. In 2010 nearly 1.3 billion people (close to one-fifth of the global population) did not have ... -
The Evidence of Benefits for Poor People of Electricity Provision: Scoping Note and Review Protocol
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-08)At one level, the relationship between electricity, economic growth and the elimination of poverty is obvious. At the aggregate level, no country has achieved a high level of per capita income and welfare without a functioning ... -
Real Time Monitoring Technologies for Pro-Poor Access to Electricity
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-07)Existing literature strongly and consistently reports the high upfront cost of energy technology hardware as one of the main demand-side barriers to increased use of modern energy services by the poor. Existing literature ...
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