This project aims at raising the levels of social development, and economic growth in Bangladesh, by increasing access to electricity in rural areas, where most of the country's poor population live.
The research area of the project is "Electrification through grid and decentralized systems", which is one of the five research areas under the ENERGIA Gender and Energy Research Programme Framework (a Five-Year Sub-Programme on "Gender a
This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012.
Increasing agricultural productivity can have ambiguous effects on forest protection in theory: it can expand the scope of farming, which is detrimental to the forest, but it can also induce farmers to intensify their production.