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Who Benefits Most from Rural Electrification? : Evidence in India / Shahidur R. Khandker
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Khandker, Shahidur R.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Distributional Impacts of Electrification.
- Electric Power.
- Energy and Poverty Alleviation.
- Energy Production and Transportation.
- Engineering.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Electrification Impacts.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Rural India.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Distributional Impacts of Electrification.
- Electric Power.
- Energy and Poverty Alleviation.
- Energy Production and Transportation.
- Engineering.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Electrification Impacts.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Rural India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (39 pages)
- Other Title:
- Who Benefits Most from Rural Electrification?
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2012
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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 helps to reduce time allocated to fuelwood collection by household members and increases time allocated to studying by boys and girls. Rural electrification also increases the labor supply of men and women, schooling of boys and girls, and household per capita income and expenditure. Electrification also helps reduce poverty. But the larger share of benefits accrues to wealthier rural households, with poorer ones having more limited use of electricity. The analysis also shows that restricted supply of electricity, due to frequent power outages, negatively affects both household electricity connection and its consumption, thereby reducing the expected benefits of rural electrification.
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