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- Hlalefang Khobai (2021): Renewable Energy Consumption, Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth Nexus in South Africa: ARDL Bounds Test Approach
This study examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption, poverty alleviation and economic growth in South Africa. ... The findings of the paper established a presence of a long run relationship between renewable energy consumption, poverty, economic growth, financial development and government expenditure. Specifically, renewable energy consumption and economic growth have a negative and significant impact on poverty in both long run and short run. The VECM suggest that renewable energy consumption Granger-causes both economic growth and poverty in the long. ... The results have important implication for renewable energy policy makers as it can be realised that policies that promote adoption of clean technology will alleviate poverty in South Africa.
RePEc:eco:journ2:2021-05-51 Save to MyIDEAS - Nissing, Christian & von Blottnitz, Harro (2010): Renewable energy for sustainable urban development: Redefining the concept of energisation
It is widely recognised that access to and supply of modern energy play a key role in poverty alleviation and sustainable development. ... Building upon these first insights, two planned cases of energisation in post-apartheid South Africa are contrasted to an unplanned one: they are the national electrification programme, the integrated energy centres initiative, and a wood fuelled local economy in Khayelitsha, Cape Town's biggest township. ... Finally, a new and detailed definition of the concept of sustainable energisation is developed by systematically reiterating three key elements: the target group, the concept of energy services, and sustainable development.
RePEc:eee:enepol:v:38:y:2010:i:5:p:2179-2187 Save to MyIDEAS - Moussa P. Blimpo & Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies (2019): Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
[Accès à l’électricité en Afrique subsaharienne]
Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa shows that the fundamental problem is poverty and lack of economic opportunities rather than power.
RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:31333 Save to MyIDEAS - Nissing, Christian & von Blottnitz, Harro (2010): An economic model for energisation and its integration into the urban energy planning process
It is widely recognised that access to and supply of modern energy play a key role in poverty alleviation and sustainable development. ... To demonstrate this, an economic model is developed for an urban developmental context, drawing on the theory of urban ecosystems and illustrating energy and waste production and consumption issues with current South African data sets. This new understanding of the concept of energisation is then integrated into a local government energy planning process, by means of a checklist for energy planners, covering 18 aspects that between them affect all 7 identifiable tiers of the energy service supply network. A 6-step structured approach is proposed for integrating sustainable energisation into the first four phases of the advanced local energy planning (ALEP) tool.
RePEc:eee:enepol:v:38:y:2010:i:5:p:2370-2378 Save to MyIDEAS - van der Plas, Robert (1988): Domestic lighting
Lighting is one of the determinants of quality of life. In most developing countries, households spend a considerable part of their cash income on modern fuels to meet their lighting needs. The average amount of fuel consumed for lighting is much higher in villages without electricity than in villages with it; moreover, people with non-electric light have much lower lighting levels than people with electric lights. Why then do people use non-electric lighting when electricity is available? Mainly because they fit well with poor family spending patterns.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:68 Save to MyIDEAS - Julian A. Lampietti & Hernan Gonzalez & Margaret Wilson & Ellen Hamilton & Sergo Vashakmadze (2004): Revisiting Reform in the Energy Sector : Lessons from Georgia
The objective is to highlight lessons from the reforms implemented and to apply them to the future reform program planned for the rest of the energy sector. ... Consolidated government expenditures on energy have increased, but to a large extent this simply recognizes costs that were incurred, but not paid, prior to reform.
RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:15055 Save to MyIDEAS - Bacon, Robert (1992): Measuring the possibilities of interfuel substitution
With econometric models, the elasticity of substitution between energy and other inputs determines the costs of making activities less energy-intensive, while the elasticity of substitution between sources of energy (interfuel substitutability) determines the marginal costs of replacing one energy source with another. ... Among the author's main conclusions: There are surprisingly large variations in energy and fuel use over time and between countries. Industrial output increased 62 percent in OECD countries between 1971 and 1988, for example, while energy use stayed unchanged. Also, shares of energy sources for industry and electricity vary greatly with local availablity, indicating that these sectors have some flexibility in choice of energy source. ... Lack of data is the biggest problem in estimating fuel and energy substitutability in non-OECD countries.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1031 Save to MyIDEAS - Terrado, Ernesto & Mendis, Matthew & Fitzgerald, Kevin (1989): Impact of lower oil prices on renewable energy technologies
The impacts of reduced oil prices on the economic viability of selected technologies which utilize solar, wind and biomass energy sources are examined. ... The findings indicate that the economic sensitivity of renewable energy technologies is mainly a function of scale and project location. Renewable energy technologies that compete directly in the modern large scale sector, such as dendrothermal are the most adversely affected by falling oil prices.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:110 Save to MyIDEAS - Dasgupta, Susmita & Martin, Paul & Samad, Hussain A. (2013): Addressing household air pollution : a case study in rural Madagascar
Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households rely on solid biomass, such as charcoal, wood, and crop waste, as the main cooking fuel. Only a limited number of studies have looked at the emissions and health consequences of cook stoves in Africa. This paper summarizes an initiative to monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations of fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide in each kitchen were monitored three times using UCB Particle Monitors and GasBadge Pro Single Gas Monitors. The average concentrations of both pollutants significantly exceeded World Health Organization guidelines for indoor exposure.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:6627 Save to MyIDEAS - Khandker, Shahidur R. & Samad, Hussain A. & Ali, Rubaba & Barnes, Douglas F. (2012): Who benefits most from rural electrification ? evidence in India
Electrification also helps reduce poverty.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:6095 Save to MyIDEAS