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Solar Power Is Taking Off in Malawi: But Poor Households Need Financial Help to Make It Work for Them
Check out this article from The Conversation on solar power in Malawi and its impact on households.
Incentivizing Grid Reliability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
On October 14, 2025, an in-person roundtable discussion in Washington D.C. unpacked the power reliability challenge in low- and middle-income countries and pressure-tested ideas from the newly released working paper Incentivizing Reliability: A Framework for Performance-Linked Electricity Improvements. Click here to learn more about our work in this area.
Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the time that women spend obtaining firewood
Catch up on the inaugural Environment for Development seminar series featuring Marc Jeuland. Marc presented “Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the time that women spend obtaining firewood” on November 15, 2023.