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Nearly 20 percent of the world’s population, 1.3 billion people, live without electricity, most of them in rural sub-Saharan Africa, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.47 In addition, one billion more suffer from very poor service from the local electric utility, with frequent electricity cuts that plague cities in the developing world.
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Kayser, O., Budinich, V. (2015). Lighting. In: Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466549_6
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