This Live Wire analyzes data from the 2020 edition of Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) and presents the trends in policy on access to clean cooking and electricity, with a focus on Sub-Saharan...
Too often, electrification programs do not fully exploit the degree to which access to electricity can improve livelihoods. This live wire documents the lessons learned from the World Bank-funded Indonesia...
Access to electricity is widely considered a major determinant of socioeconomic development. But despite long-standing efforts to expand access, 789 million people remained without electricity in 2018...
Sustainable energy is at the heart of the global development and climate change agenda. Reaching the targets set by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) will require a rapid increase...
Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent...