Does Large Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda's Electricity Access Roll-Out Program

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Rural electrification through mini-grids: Challenges ahead (2019, background): “Profitability of these businesses is mostly low and so is accordingly the business demand for electricity (Chaplin et al. 2017; Neelsen and Peters 2011; Peters et al. 2011; Peters and Sievert 2016; Lenz et al. 2017).”
Impacts of rural electrification revisited – the African context (2016, unknown): “See Lenz et al. (2015) for an examination of indirect health effects through improvements in service provision of rural health centres.”
Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda (2020, unknown): “In Africa, by contrast, it is less clear whether electrification triggers massive economic development (Dinkelman 2011; Bernard 2012; Peters and Sievert 2016; Chaplin et al. 2017; Lenz et al. 2017; Bos et al. 2018; Lee et al. 2019).”
Access to modern energy: a review of barriers, drivers and impacts (2016, background): “, 2016), 50 per cent in India (Burlig and Preonas, 2016) and 70 per cent in Rwanda (Lenz et al., 2017).”
A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda (2016, unknown): “such as grid extension, it also becomes evident that Pico‐PV kits cannot satisfy the whole portfolio of energy demand (Lenz et al. 2016).”