Eli5: Why is it so difficult for third-world countries to provide stable electricity to their citizens despite the technology being so abundant?

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The technology is readily available, people will pay to have access to it. Yet, a lot of people still don’t have this technology made available to them.

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I read a study on telephone and Internet roll-out in china. China had to use fiber optic cable, because no matter how deep they buried copper wire, the labour needed to dig up that copper cost next to nothing as there was no better work people.

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