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  • Unlocking Clean Cooking Pathways : A Practitioner’s Keys to Progress (English)

    Provision of clean cooking for all is recognized as a critical cross-sectoral development issue. The potential societal benefits are enormous, particularly for public health, women’s productivity and empowerment...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 180668 Document Date: March 7, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zhang,Yabei,Adams,Norma,Pemberton-Pigott,Crispin Robert,Pinto,Alisha Noella,Wu,Jingyi,Barnes,Douglas French,Tuntivate, Voravate Tig,Durix,Laurent

  • Power for all : electricity access challenge in India (English)

    India has led the developing world in addressing rural energy problems. By late 2012, the national electricity grid had reached 92 percent of India’s rural villages, about 880 million people. In more remote...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 92223 Document Date: October 29, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh,Barnes,Douglas French,Mayer,Kristin,Samad,Hussain A.,Singh,Bipulendu Narayan

  • Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam (English)

    This brief summarizes the welfare impacts of rural electrification: evidence from Vietnam for the period 2000-2004. Access to electricity is a key to any development initiative and there is a growing body...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81520 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Barnes,Douglas French,Samad,Hussain A.,Nguyen,Minh Huu

  • Connection charges and electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

    Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural residents. This poor performance can be linked to various factors, including political interference in...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6511 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barnes,Douglas French,Golumbeanu,Raluca Georgiana

  • Who benefits most from rural electrification ? evidence in India (English)

    This paper applies an econometric analysis to estimate the average and distribution benefits of rural electrification using rich household survey data from India. The results support that rural electrification...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6095 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ali,Rubaba,Barnes,Douglas French,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world (English)

    For people in developed countries, burning fuel wood in an open hearth evokes nostalgia and romance. But in developing countries, the harsh reality is that several billion people, mainly women and children...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 68279 Document Date: April 27, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barnes,Douglas French,Kumar,Priti,Openshaw,Keith

  • One goal, two paths : achieving universal access to modern energy in East Asia and the Pacific (English)

    The purpose of the current flagship report is to address energy access and related developmental issues in East Asia Pacific (EAP) that so far have received less attention compared to the macro energy...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 64669 Document Date: September 14, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ostojic,Dejan,Jammi,Ramachandra,Barnes,Douglas French,Sanghvi,Arun P.,Mathur,Subodh C.,Zhang,Yabei,Durix,Laurent

  • Energy poverty in rural and urban India : are the energy poor also income poor ? (English)

    Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5463 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Barnes,Douglas French,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Peru - National Survey of Rural Household Energy Use (English)

    This study posits that in order to gain a better understanding of existing and potential users of electricity in rural areas of Peru, the National Survey on Energy Consumption Households in Rural Areas...

    Document Type: Energy Study Report No.: 57700 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Meier,Peter,Tuntivate,Voravate,Barnes,Douglas French,Bogash, Susan V.,Farchy,Daniel J.

  • Peru - National survey of rural household energy use (English)

    The survey provided data on rural household energy use and expenditures, use by rural households of electricity from the grid, and use by rural households of off-grid electricity. The survey also provided...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62473 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Meier,Peter,Tuntivate,Voravate,Barnes,Douglas French,Bogach,Victoria Susan,Farchy,Daniel J.

  • Peru - Encuesta nacional de consumo de energía a hogares en el ambito rural (Spanish)

    This paper states that Peru is a country of extreme diversity, both in geography and in the conditions of the socioeconomic characteristics of their citizens. This makes the achievement of the goals of...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 57564 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Meier,Peter,Tuntivate,Voravate,Barnes,Douglas French,Bogach,Victoria Susan,Farchy,Daniel J.

  • Restoring balance : Bangladesh's rural energy realities (English)

    Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's 140 million people reside in rural areas; of these, 20 percent live in extreme poverty. Geographically, many low-lying...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 53877 Document Date: March 29, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khan,Mohammad Asaduzzaman,Barnes,Douglas French,Khandker,Shahidur R.

  • Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam (English)

    Access to electricity is crucial for economic development and there is a growing body of literature on the impact of rural electrification on development. However, most studies have so far relied on cross-sectional...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5057 Document Date: September 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barnes,Douglas French,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Nguyen,Minh Huu,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Restoring balance : Bangladesh's rural energy realities (English)

    This study, the first to concentrate on Bangladesh's energy systems and their effects on the lives of rural people, drew on these background studies, as well as other World Bank-financed research on IAP...

    Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 48017 Document Date: March 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Asaduzzaman,Mohammed,Barnes,Douglas French,Khandker,Shahidur R.

  • Welfare impacts of rural electrification : a case study from Bangladesh (English)

    Lack of access to electricity is one of the major impediments to growth and development of the rural economies in developing countries. That is why access to modern energy, in particular to electricity...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4859 Document Date: March 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Barnes,Douglas French,Samad,Hussain A.