Prepaid electricity meters are changing how residential customers pay for power across the developing world

Electrification generates industrial development by attracting entrants through lowering barriers to entry, and thus increasing competition

Ensuring sufficient investment to establish reliable access to comprehensive basic services, beyond electricity, is needed for impacts to be achieved

Free electricity connections in rural South African households changed home production technologies and induced more women to work in the market

How is global warming likely to impact our behaviour and how we interact with one another?

Bringing down air pollution in China could improve mental health as evidence shows a causal effect of pollutants on depressive symptoms

Data from 19th century Britain highlight the significant effect of air pollution on the infant mortality rate and the ‘urban mortality penalty’

Transferring subsidies directly to the programme beneficiaries in in-kind transfer programmes can help in reducing leakages

Kenya's work connecting rural communities to the national electricity grid allows us to examine the impact of electrification on people's...