# Research Benin

* focus on:
    * income inequality, based on bottom 40%, Gini coefficient, other inequality measures
    * inequality in policy areas of development interventions:
        * Benin inequalities in access to electricity

## Project

The project in Benin has the objective of provide access to electricity to approximately 182,000 people in 59 rural villages. The programme will also benefit 57,000 households living in the administrative perimeters of the targeted villages, but outside the areas that will be covered by the project. A large part of the beneficiary population is below the 1.90 dollar a day poverty line.

requires data on:

* poverty rates, poverty trends
    * *rural* poverty rates/trends
* inequality rural/urban
    * how does electricity increase/decrease inequality
* electricity rates, trends
    * *rural* vs urban
* extension of pre-payment techniques mimicking urban pre-payment
    * increase/decrease inequality?
* dispersion of charging stations
    * effects?
* institutional obstacles etc

## Literature

