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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015
One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...
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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024
Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...
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Solar power's rise and promise
Pernia, Ernesto M.; Generoso, Maria Janela M. - 2015
Time was when solar energy was facilely dismissed as impractical, inefficient, and pricey. In recent years, however, innovations in technology, regulation, and financing have resulted in remarkable efficiency improvements and price reductions, thereby reversing the skepticism about this...
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Solar off-grid markets in Africa : recent dynamics and the role of branded products
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2016
Solar off -grid technologies have become a lower-cost alternative to grid-based electrification in rural Africa. As a contribution to the United Nations’ electricity for all goals, policy currently promotes branded solar products based on the assumption that high-quality standards are...
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Rural energy for sustainable development technology and environmental issues
Chaturvedi, Pradeep - 1998
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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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Drought shocks and labor reallocation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia
Musungu, Arnold L.; Kubik, Zaneta; Qaim, Matin - 2023
We study how rural households in Ethiopia adapt to droughts through labor reallocation. By using three waves of panel data and exploiting spatial-temporal variations in drought exposure, we find that households reduce on-farm work and increase off-farm self-employment in response to both...
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Electrification for "Under Grid" households in Rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth; Brewer, Eric; Christiano, Carson; Meyo, … - In: Development engineering 1 (2016), pp. 26-35
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. In this paper, we present high-resolution...
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The Spending Challenge of Achieving the SDGs in South Asia : Lessons from India
García-Escribano, Mercedes; Mogues, Tewodaj; Moszoro, … - 2023
. Within the region, India has become a global economic powerhouse with enormous development potential ahead. To foster human … and economic development, India has shown a strong commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. This chapter … focuses on the medium-term development challenges that South Asia, and in particular India, faces to ensure substantial …
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