Publications

Working Paper - October 2025

Incentivizing Grid Reliability: A Framework for Performance-Linked Electricity Improvements in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Jonathan Phillips, Abdoulaye Cissé, Marc Jeuland, Megan Elizabeth Lang, Jean Nahrae Lee, Ryan McCord, Robyn Meeks, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Manpreet Singh, Xander Slaski, Ruozi Song, Rafia Zaman, and Alix Peterson Zwane

Policy Brief - August 2022

The Role of Taxes and Subsidies in the Clean Cooking Transition: A Review of Relevant Theoretical and Empirical Insights

Ipsita Das, Marc Jeuland, Victoria Plutshack

Policy Brief - December 2021

COVID-19 and Distributed Renewables: How the Crisis Has Affected the Sector and What It Means for People, the Planet, and the Future of Energy Access

James E. Rogers Energy Access Project and Bboxx

Journal Article - December 2021

Global forces of change: Implications for forest-poverty dynamics

Priya Shyamsundar, Laura Aileen Sauls, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Kira Sullivan-Wiley, J.T. Erbaugh, P.P. Krishnapriya

Journal Article - July 2021

The Economics of Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries

Meredith Fowlie, Robyn Meeks

News - June 2021

Washington Post: Biden’s infrastructure success depends on implementation, not just ideas

Ashton Merck, Victoria Plutshack

Journal Article - January 2021

Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries

Marc Jeuland, T. Robert Fetter, Yating Li, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Faraz Usmani, Randall A. Bluffstone, Carlos Chávez, Hannah Girardeau, Sied Hassen, Pamela Jagger, Mónica M. Jaime, Mary Karumba, Gunnar Köhlin, Luciane Lenz, Erin L. Litzow, Lauren Masatsugu, Maria Angelica Naranjo, Jörg Peters, Ping Qin, Remidius D. Ruhinduka, Montserrat Serrano-Medranor, Maximiliane Sievert, Erin O. Sills, Michael Toman

Blog Post - July 2020

What’s Holding Back Off-Grid Solar – And How the Energy Access Sector Can Turn Things Around

Hannah Girardeau, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Alicia Oberholzer

Policy Brief - May 2020

Harnessing Data Analytics to Accelerate Energy Access: Reflections from a Duke-RTI Convening on Data for Development

T. Robert Fetter, Justin S. Baker

Other Publications