Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

IF 8.7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

World Bank Research Observer Pub Date : 2012-02-01 DOI:10.1093/WBRO/LKQ008

Tanguy Bernard

引用次数: 192

Abstract

The author reviews trends in rural electrification over the past 30 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it is shown that motivations for rural electrification programs have evolved significantly over the years, following changes in development paradigms. The author finds, that knowledge of the impact of this has only marginally improved: low connection rates and weak productive utilization identified in the 1980s remain true today, and impacts on such dimensions as health, education, or income, though often used to justify projects, are largely undocumented. Indeed impact evaluations are methodologically challenging in the field of infrastructures and have been limited thus far. Nevertheless examples of recent or ongoing impact evaluations of rural electrification programs offer promising avenues for identifying both the effect of electricity per se and the relative effectiveness of approaches to promoting it.

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撒哈拉以南非洲农村电气化项目影响分析

作者回顾了过去30年撒哈拉以南非洲农村电气化的趋势。特别是，随着发展模式的变化，农村电气化计划的动机多年来发生了重大变化。作者发现，对这一影响的认识只是略有改善:1980年代确定的低接入率和低生产利用率今天仍然存在，对健康、教育或收入等方面的影响虽然经常被用来证明项目的正当性，但在很大程度上没有记录。事实上，影响评价在方法上对基础设施领域具有挑战性，迄今为止受到限制。然而，最近或正在进行的农村电气化项目影响评估的例子为确定电力本身的影响和促进电气化的方法的相对有效性提供了有希望的途径。

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