How does energy matter? Rural electrification, entrepreneurship, and community development in Kenya

• Main Authors: VERNET, Antoine, KHAYESI, Jane N. O., GEORGE, Vivian, GEORGE, Gerard, BAHAJ, Abubakar S.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• 主題: Entrepreneurship; Experiment; Community development; Rural electrification; Kenya; Microenterprise; African Studies; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6202; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7201/viewcontent/EnergyPolicy2019.pdf

We examine the impact of rural electrification on individuals and businesses within a community in order to test a resource-based theory of entrepreneurship. We show that access to electricity increases average households’ income and entrepreneurial activities. The impact of electricity on entrepren...