Deprivation Counts: An Assessment of Energy Poverty in Pakistan

Mahmood, Rafat; Shah, Anwar

doi:10.35536/lje.2017.v22.i1.a6

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“…Energy enrichment can be considered a modern 'big-push' for economic development. In order to experience such big push, the country, however, needs a well-designed assistance program that can break the technological, social, economic, and energy governance related bottlenecks [13]. Lastly, our findings have sound implications for the improvements of energy governance and clean energy for Pakistan and for the other developing countries in general.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Okun's Law states that the unavailability of energy services causes unemployment [25]. Further, the existing literature also shows a strong relationship between energy poverty and provision of energy services for Pakistan [13,14]. Availability of energy services is also used as a proxy variable to measure energy poverty in Europe [26].…”

Section: Energy Services Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the literature, there are mainly three approaches to quantify this concept. The first one is "The Ten Percent Rule" (TTPR) by [11,12], the second method relies upon drawing a threshold level of energy use with some engineering models [13][14][15], and the third technique constructs a comprehensive index for energy poverty [16,17].…”

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Measuring Energy Poverty and Its Impact on Economic Growth in Pakistan

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During the last two decades, energy poverty has captured the growing attention of researchers and policymakers due to its strong association with economic poverty and poor economic performance. This study uses a broad set of macro level indicators and makes the first attempt to measure energy poverty and its impact on economic growth of Pakistan over the period of 1990 to 2017. Our energy poverty indicator considers four main dimensions of energy poverty, namely, energy services, clean energy, energy governance and energy affordability. A composite value of the energy poverty index shows that although the overall energy poverty has reduced in Pakistan during the selected sample period, the country shows an increasing dependence on polluted energy supply to meet its growing energy demand. In the second stage of investigation, the study tests the neoclassical growth theory where we incorporate energy poverty along with human capital as a source of economic growth. The main findings show a stable short-run cointegration between energy poverty and economic growth. These strong negative linkages between energy poverty and economic growth for the sample economy complement the previous literature on the subject.

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“…And 84% of those without electricity access reside in rural areas (IEA 2017). The incidence of energy poverty is higher in rural areas than in urban areas (Mahmood and Shah 2017). Moreover, the majority of those living without clean cooking fuels also live in rural areas of developing countries.…”

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Rural Household Energy Systems in Developing Countries

Imran

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Definition Energy systems are set of production, transformation, and transmission of energy sources. The structure of energy systems is not the same around the globe and differences exist among developing and developed worlds, among developing countries, and even within the country. An important difference in the structure of energy systems is between rural and urban areas in developing countries. In urban areas, much of the energy is used for commercial activities and the share of the household sector in total energy consumption is very low. On the contrary, in rural areas, the household sector is the major consumer of energy. The supply of energy in rural areas is basically met from traditional sources like fuelwood, crop residues, animal dung, etc. So, Rural energy systems refer to systems in which energy is mainly supplied from traditional sources (fuelwood, crop residue, animal dung) and may also include biogas, solar, and micro-hydro at a small scale. Another characteristic of the Rural energy systems is, here the household sector is the highest contributor in total energy demand and the main use of energy is for cooking and space heating in cool places. The energy requirement of other sectors is insignificant, and households are the major consumer of energy.

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“…Modern energy sources also lead to job creation [61]. Use of modern fuels promotes communication and improves environmental sustainability by reducing deforestation and enhancing energy efficiency [62]. Energy poverty thus prevents people from meeting basic daily needs such as cooking, lighting, heating, cooling, and communication all of which are necessary for an acceptable quality of life [63]…”

Section: Energy Consumption and Standard Of Livingmentioning

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Energy Poverty and Its Implication on Standard of Living in Kirinyaga, Kenya

Njiru¹,

Letema

2018

Journal of Energy

120

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Energy poverty affects physical health, well-being, and ability to prosper. A large proportion of Kenyan population lack access to electricity because they are located far from the national grid where it is uneconomical to extend electricity. This paper assesses energy poverty situation in Kirinyaga and reviews its implication on standard of living. Kirinyaga is a rural county with the main economic activity being agriculture and a few agroprocessing factories. Most rural households in Kirinyaga rely on fuel wood to meet their basic energy requirements and lack access to electricity. Tea factories and educational institutions rely on fuel wood to minimize cost of electricity. Kirinyaga residents, therefore, experience energy poverty as indicated by low electricity access and reliance on traditional cooking fuels. Energy poverty in Kirinyaga has negative impact on indicators of standards of living, calorific intake, life expectancy, and literacy levels.

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Deprivation Counts: An Assessment of Energy Poverty in Pakistan

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Measuring Energy Poverty and Its Impact on Economic Growth in Pakistan

Measuring Energy Poverty and Its Impact on Economic Growth in Pakistan

Rural Household Energy Systems in Developing Countries

Energy Poverty and Its Implication on Standard of Living in Kirinyaga, Kenya

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