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.
This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012.
Let There Be Light International's Solar Health in Rural Uganda Project focuses on improving the health and safety of off-grid communities in rural Uganda. The Solar Health Project engages in three primary activities through grant-based programmatic partnerships with local NGO's and other stakeholders.
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.