Rural electrification: Accelerating impacts with complementary services

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-42

  Peters, Jörg ^a   Harsdorff, Marek ^a   Ziegler, Florian ^a  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benin; Energy access; Household energy demand; Productive energy use

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

BENIN; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; ENERGY ACCESS; ENERGY USE; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY DEMANDS; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION;

RURAL AREAS;

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENERGY USE; FINANCIAL PROVISION; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; SERVICE PROVISION;

AFRICA; BENIN [WEST AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 65549165396     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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