For decades, people in rural Africa have been using sooty kerosene lamps to dimly light their homes. But in recent years households, even in poor areas, have started to replace their kerosene lamps with non-rechargeable dry-cell battery driven lamps and solar kits.
EfD researchers have been working with Cape Town’s authorities in their efforts to stave off #DayZero – the day when the Cities taps run dry. Their findings cast new light on the importance of effective demand management to cope with water shortages. In this blog we discuss how the tools of economics can be used to pre-empt such crisis management in growing cities in the Global South.
By: EfD Director Gunnar Köhlin, Prof Dale Whittington and Prof Martine Visser June 2018
Taken from the Let's talk Development Blog of the World Bank:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/rural-electrification-how-mu…
All over the world, indigenous communities tend to be marginalized both politically and economically. So awarding them formal legal rights to the forests they have historically controlled, often for hundreds of years, is probably a good idea from the standpoint of social justice and economic development.
A field experiment conducted in rural Rwanda evaluates the revealed willingness to pay for different off-grid solar technologies
Luciane Lenz and Jörg Peters
The authors are researchers at RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research, and part of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) network.
A field experiment conducted in rural Rwanda evaluates the revealed willingness to pay for different off-grid solar technologies
Many of us have experienced the frustration of idling in long lines of traffic, inching forward at what seems like an interminable rate. Unfortunately, traffic congestion like this is a daily occurrence in many of the world’s fastest growing cities, such as Mexico City, Bangkok, Istanbul, and Rio de Janeiro.
If you’re looking to replace your washing machine, have no fear: at least one major retailer stocks six different types of washers, with eight different sets of features, from nine different brands.
Do you like high-capacity front-loading washers? Perhaps you want your washer to also function as a dryer? Or a steamer? You’re covered!
About 40% of the human population, or about 2.8 billion people, find commercial fuels like electricity and gas inaccessible, too expensive or too irregularly supplied to use for cooking and heating (Smith et al., 2013; IEA, 2012). Instead, they rely on solid fuels like coal, fuelwood, dung and charcoal that are combusted inside their homes.