KEY MESSAGESMost of the businesses in rural areas are home-based, i.e., the household runs businesses such as food sales, restaurants, mobile, and electronics shops, barbering, etc., within their residence. Rural households’ business ownership increased from 17.5% in 2011 to 28.5% in 2016. We found that: |
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While electricity is a key to economic development, nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity.
This study analyses the socioeconomic benefits of electrification in Uganda.
The findings show that grid connectivity increases the number of work hours, female employment, household expenditure (meaning that the household is able to buy more of the goods that it needs), and key educational outcomes.
Furthermore, the benefits from grid connectivity increase with time.
The evidence demonstrating the welfare impacts of electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa remains weak and inconsistent, leading some to assert that emphasis on access, in and of itself, is misplaced and that more should be done to identify the complementary conditions that are needed to deliver the anticipated economic growth and improved welfare outcomes. This project seeks to contribute to this debate, by focusing on the impacts of Uganda’s electrification efforts.
This study examines the factors affecting household energy expenditures in Ghana. We employ the
double-hurdle model to investigate whether the factors affecting fuel choice differ from those affecting
fuel expenditures. The following results are obtained using a nationwide representative household dataset.
First, we show that the factors influencing the household’s decision to participate in either the LPG or
charcoal market differ from those influencing how much is spent. Second, households that already use
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 stresses the importance for economies around the world to double
their efforts in improving energy efficiency. Energy efficiency improvements have been found to trigger economic
growth, albeit empirical evidence to support this claim remains mixed. In a world of widening inequality,
how income inequality dynamics affect the growth and energy efficiency nexus is critical, yet empirical research
investigating the role of income inequality is lacking. This study addresses this concern by examining the
The Sustainable Development Goal 7 seeks universal access to energy, substantial increase in the share of
renewable energy and doubling of energy efficiency efforts. The success of these targets most likely depends on
maximizing, where they exist, positive synergies or trade-offs with other development outcomes. Studies
investigating the relationship between energy efficiency and (un)employment remain inconclusive and mainly
focus their analysis on the energy-supply side, neglecting the demand side. Moreover, these empirical studies
