Ahmed, I;
(2020)
Explaining Rwanda's prioritisation of rural electrification over rural clean drinking water through institutional path dependency.
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
, 54
pp. 186-201.
10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.001.
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Abstract
The Tennessee Valley Authority and Rural Electrification Administration became the World Bank's template of choice for development projects. They remained so due to both institutional inertia within the World Bank and path dependent thinking of electrification as a means to economic growth. Consequently, electrification took the front seat for development projects worldwide, extending to rural areas, while water remains perceived as an amenity, rather than as economic infrastructure. This explains in part why the Government of Rwanda has prioritised rural electrification over rural clean drinking water in spite of recent evidence showing that rural electrification does not deliver growth in the Rwandan context.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Explaining Rwanda's prioritisation of rural electrification over rural clean drinking water through institutional path dependency |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.001 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Path dependency; Economic versus social infrastructure; Erfahrungswissenschaft; World Bank; Rwanda; Rostovian development; Rural electrification; Rural water; Cold War economics; Historical institutionalism; Tennessee Valley Authority; Development history; Rural Electrification Administration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134295 |
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