1. Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa.
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MacLean, Lauren M., Brass, Jennifer N., Carley, Sanya, El-Arini, Ashraf, and Breen, Scott
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NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,DEMOCRACY ,ECONOMIC development ,ELECTRIC power distribution ,ELECTRIC power ,RENEWABLE energy sources ,HUMANITARIAN assistance ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation – small-scale, localised electricity generation – to change this situation. Despite widespread need, however, the dispersion of these distributed generation NGOs (DG-NGOs) is uneven, with high concentrations in a few African countries. Drawing on an original database and field research, we analyse location variation among DG-NGOs across the continent. We find that DG-NGOs are likely to operate in democratic settings with large populations that lack access to electricity. International DG-NGOs are also likely to operate where aid allocation levels are relatively high. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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