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

Question

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.

In: Economics

Answer 1

Besides of your assumption people in third world countries might not afford to pay enough to maintain stable elecricity grid. Many of these countries also ofthen have corrupt and ineffective governments making it more difficult to build a grid properly.