Research results by Profs. Michael Grimm and Jörg Peters as well as various co-authors from the
RWI featured in the 7th Feb 2019 print edition of The Economist. The article “Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought” discusses the impact of electrification on living standards of the poor and their economic activity and draws, among others, on randomized field experiments undertaken by Grimm and Peters in Rwanda.