On December 8th 2016, an associate professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a lead academic for the International Growth Centre's Ghana program, David Lagakos gave a seminar on "Rural Electrification, Migration and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ethiopia" in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Using panel of rural Ethiopian villages, 2012 to 2014 his research looked at e ffects of electri fication on; non-agricultural business activity, agricultural techniques and productivity, migration patterns and investment in household durable goods. Full details of this presentation are available here.
This presentation was organized by ESSP and IGC with support from EDRI. ESSP is a collaborative program undertaken by IFPRI and EDRI, whose objective is to help improve the policy-making decision process in Ethiopia.
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