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Charging ahead: Prepaid metering, electricity use, and utility revenue
Prepaid electricity meters are changing how residential customers pay for power across the developing world
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Electricity grid expansion and firm turnover in Indonesia
Electrification generates industrial development by attracting entrants through lowering barriers to entry, and thus increasing competition
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Can electricity access help solve poverty in Kenya?
Ensuring sufficient investment to establish reliable access to comprehensive basic services, beyond electricity, is needed for impacts to be achieved
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How does access to electricity affect people’s lives?
Free electricity connections in rural South African households changed home production technologies and induced more women to work in the market
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Does bottom-up accountability work? Evidence from Uganda
Whilst bottom-up pressure from citizens can improve healthcare service delivery, there is a ceiling to the positive effects it generates
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Improving shock-coping with savings: The case of transactional sex
Mobile banking to increase personal savings reduces the use of transactional sex for shock-coping among vulnerable women in Kenya
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Does patient demand contribute to overuse of prescription drugs? Evidence from Mali
Evidence from Mali shows that patient demand is an important contributor to the overuse of antimalarials
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Information is power: Evidence from Mexico City’s Labour Court
Providing personalised information on predicted case outcomes to parties in ongoing cases improved court efficiency and achieved better settlements
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The effects of land reforms on farm size and agricultural productivity
Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity