Impact of Rural Electrification on Microenterprise

microenterprise large Electrification has a small but significant impact on the revenue earnings of the microenterprise. The possible channels are increase in number of hours worked per day by the household members and use of electrical equipment. The following is a selection of data from the report. For complete information, including data sources, please download the chapter document.

Impact on Microenterprise (by Country)
Ghana	Lao PDR	Peru	Philippines

Breakdown of Communities by Electrification Status (Number of Communities)

	Peru			Ghana
		1994			1998
Community Status	1991	(1991 Sample)	1994	1998	(2003 Sample)	2003
Electrified	22	24	42	64	4	21
Nonelectrified	17	15	69	126	32	16
Total	39	39	111	190	36	37

Complementary Infrastructure

	Peru		Ghana
Facility	Electrified	Nonelectrified	Electrified	Nonelectrified
Post office	0.071	0.140	0.368	0.056**
Restaurants	0.262	0.246	0.887	0.403**
Bank	0.000	0.000
Market	0.047	0.058	0.0351	0.103**
Road	0.809	0.695*	0.958	0.818*
Transport			0.895	0.605**
Water			0.509	0.024**
Primary school	0.905	0.927	0.949	0.878*
Secondary school	0.714	0.464**	0.775	0.488**
Health staff			0.657	0.410**
Health facility			0.635	0.440**
Adult literacy	0.619	0.580	0.737	0.831
Wage	3.002	2.553**
Microenterprises	0.435	0.375	0.580	0.359*
	42	69	57	124

*Significant difference at 1 percent
** Significant difference at 5 percent

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