Welfare Impacts Of Rural Electrification: A Case Study From Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R.; Barnes, Douglas F.; Samad, Hussain A.

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-4859

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“…Similar was observed by Rahman et al (2012). Rangpur being a monga prone division is severely affected by poverty, especially in its rural areas (Khandker et al, 2009).…”

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Factors affecting poverty in rural Bangladesh: An analysis using multilevel modelling

Imam

Islam

Hossain

2018

J Bangladesh Agric Univ

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Poverty is a multi-faced problem in the developing world and it is much more complex in rural settings. Hence, policy formulation based on national level studies sometimes fails to find remedies of rural poverty. Thus, the present study aims to identify the determinants of poverty in rural Bangladesh using the nationally representative Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2010 data. The HIES follows a hierarchical structure hence, two-level random intercept binary logistic regression models were used to capture the unobserved heterogeneity between communities along with revealing important factors associated with poverty. The analyses found that 32% of the households were absolute poor and 19% were extremely poor in rural Bangladesh. The potential factors having significant association with poverty were found to be age and education of household head, division, household size, household types, number of dependents, per capita income, household own land, access to electricity, amount of cultivable land, engagement in livestock and farm forestry, household non-agricultural assets, number of male earner and number of female earner in the family. Significant community-level variations were observed in the analyses which emphasis the need for special attention on the poor performing communities. Specific policy recommendations have been suggested for the poverty alleviation of rural households in Bangladesh.

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“…Similar was observed by Rahman et al (2012). Rangpur being a monga prone division is severely affected by poverty, especially in its rural areas (Khandker et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors affecting poverty in rural Bangladesh: An analysis using multilevel modelling

Imam

Islam

Hossain

2018

J Bangladesh Agric Univ

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“…We see that fertility rate generally falls as we move along the income quintiles from the lowest to highest. This suggests that the electrification of an area, may lead to new employment opportunities and thus a reduction in fertility as women divert their time from reproduction to income-generating activities (Khandker et al 2009;Bensch et al 2011). (1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008).…”

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“…The electrification of a community usually creates income shocks in the area through newly available job opportunities (Khandker et al 2009;Bensch et al 2011). New jobs in these areas affect both participation in the labor market and available hours of work for those already employed, as observed in South Africa (Dinkelman 2011).…”

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Explaining Fertility Variation in Rural Communities: The Role of Electricity in Ghana

2018

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Abstract:We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without electricity. Using control function regressions, we identify the contribution of electrification to the rural-rural variation in fertility by exploiting the exogenous variations in the access rate to electricity at the district-level. Our results indicate that electrification contributes to a fall in fertility among rural women by between one and three children. These results are qualitatively similar to results from our two-stage least squares estimations and counterfactual analysis. Although our results may not reflect what happens in other countries, they suggest that electrification reduces fertility and should be considered when examining the costs and benefits of rural electrification programs in developing countries.

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“…Most papers identifying the effect of rural electrification using econometric techniques such as propensity score matching, difference-in-difference or instrumental variables usually deal with countries other than India. Bensch et al (2010) focus on the case of Rwanda, while Khandker et al (2009a and2009b) study Bangladesh and Vietnam, specifically rural electrification initiatives undertaken by the World Bank. Two recent papers focus on the impact of connecting a household to the electricity grid.…”

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

2014

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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel of more than 10,000 households. We use the district-level density of transmission cables as instrument for the electrification status of the household. We find that a grid connection increases non-agricultural incomes of rural households by about 9 percent during the study period (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005). However, a grid connection and a higher quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28.6 percent in the same period.JEL classification: O12, O18, Q48

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Welfare Impacts Of Rural Electrification: A Case Study From Bangladesh

Cited by 76 publications

References 10 publications

Factors affecting poverty in rural Bangladesh: An analysis using multilevel modelling

Factors affecting poverty in rural Bangladesh: An analysis using multilevel modelling

Explaining Fertility Variation in Rural Communities: The Role of Electricity in Ghana

Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

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