Impact evaluation has gained recognition over the last decade as an essential component of project development. Impact evaluation details ho...

Figure 1. Consumer Surplus for Lighting (Graphic: Doug Barnes) By Doug Barnes The concept of consumer surplus in measuring the benefit...

By Doug Barnes For several years I have been involved in a project to understand why the electricity connection rates in India are not hi...

Click Image for Amazon "Look Inside" I recently published a new book on the impact of rural electrification in develop...

By Doug Barnes  Rural Energy and Development, Published 1996 In 1996 I wrote "It is hard not to be daunted by the scale of p...

by Doug Barnes, Shahid Khandker and Hussain Samad There is a continuing discussion over what constitutes energy poverty with several app...

Between 2005 and 2009 I was the technical editor of an ESMAP Knowledge Exchange Series that involved the publication of four page summari...

By Doug Barnes A couple of years ago I completed this review of Modernizing Energy Services for the Poor:   A World Bank Investment Revie...

By Doug Barnes The International Energy Association (IEA) has published a very nice special paper with the title Energy Poverty: How to M...

There is quite a bit of work going into monitoring and evaluation in developing countries today. This is mainly due to the international don...

I have received a rather long comment from Andrew Barnett from The Policy Practice and I thought it would be good to include his insights on...

The existence of energy poverty today is quite well accepted around the world. In fact alleviating energy poverty is a goal of many developm...