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Blog Post
February 20, 2018
In the push for electricity access in the developing world, many policymakers are trying to figure out where on-grid or off-grid solutions make the most sense. My new paper asks 39,000 consumers in 12 African countries about their energy use and demand. The big takeaway: African consumers don&r...
POLICY PAPERS
February 20, 2018
We conducted phone-based surveys on energy access and demand in twelve African countries. From these findings, we draw several potential policy implications. First, both grid electricity and off-grid solutions currently are inadequate to meet many African consumers’ modern energy demands. Seco...
CGD in the News
October 20, 2014
“If your neighbor’s bathtub was leaking, would you go help them fix the leak, or would you try to paint rubber walls or something? It would make no sense. And the way we are really going to contain Ebola is at the source…what we need now is a surge of health workers.”
CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
"I think the Ebola crisis highlights how some fragile countries that are close US allies are going to continue to need US assistance, but also that Americans’ lives that sometimes seem very far away from Africa; we’re much more intertwined with Africa than we think. It’s not only for bad reasons, a ...