From 1324eddc54ae654283068bebd987359e006b009f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marty Oehme Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:34:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Finish first draft Benin --- notes/benin/2208181200_script.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes/benin/2208181200_script.md b/notes/benin/2208181200_script.md index f3f5e6f..5ae3ecb 100644 --- a/notes/benin/2208181200_script.md +++ b/notes/benin/2208181200_script.md @@ -24,17 +24,17 @@ header-includes: - \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,breakanywhere,commandchars=\\\{\}} --- -# Script +## Benin Summary: ----- -* -* -* -* -* -* +* A stable and increasing real GDP growth rates but slow decrease in relative poverty levels. +* Poverty affects households in poorly educated households in rural areas to much higher levels than urban areas. +* Education disparities happen mainly along community-level dimensions through high socio-economic segregation of schools and different access to resources. +* Large disparity of access to electricity between urban and rural households, which directly negatively affects the environmental conditions of individual rural households. +* No access to electricity due to both lacking rural infrastructure and electrical grid connection costs being too high. +* Rapid electrification will require both infrastructure expansion and policy commitment to finding ways of lowering grid connection costs. ----- @@ -106,3 +106,14 @@ too great distances between households and distribution poles in an area, and an overall lack of affordable financing solutions. +Thus, though having a relatively stable and growing real GDP, +Benin suffers from slow decreases in its relative poverty rates coupled with a relative stagnation in the inequality of its wealth dispersion. +Additionally, the country's poverty rates have a high heterogeneity with relatively more rural households and households with poor education in poverty. +A large part of education disparities happens at the community-level, with schools marked by high socio-economic segregation, +but household-level disparities, especially environmental ones, playing a role. +One of those determinants is a household's access to electricity, +of which there is an enormous disparity between urban and rural households. +The primary reasons for not having access to electricity are simple physical non-availability with no infrastructure being available in rural areas, +as well as connection costs to the main electrical grid being too high. +To decrease the effects of this driving force of inequality, +both infrastructural expansion as well as policy commitments toward affordable connections to electrical grids are thus of vital importance.