Explaining Rwanda's prioritisation of rural electrification over rural clean drinking water through institutional path dependency
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Path dependency; Economic versus social infrastructure; Erfahrungswissenschaft; World Bank; Rwanda; Rostovian development; Rural electrification; Rural water; Cold War economics; Historical institutionalism; Tennessee Valley Authority; Development history; Rural Electrification Administration;All these keywords.
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