Will Rural Electrification Help to Reduce Poverty ?

Rural electrification has a direct effect on poverty reduction when used for water pumping for irrigation.

Rural electrification assists with poverty reduction when combined with, manufacturing, lighting, irrigation, refrigeration, health care, education, drinking water, farm mechanization and post harvest processing.

On this site we examine low cost techniques for distributing electricity in rural situations, mainly by the electricity grid using SWER. This is one of a number of techniques that can be used for cost effective and reliable rural electrification.

To examine the link between poverty reduction and rural electrification in more detail please see the Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook available on the World Bank site.

What is SWER and how does it work ?