Does culture affect energy poverty? Evidence from a cross-country analysis

Chaudhry, Sajid M.; Shafiullah, Muhammad

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105536

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“…This choice is made based on the indications provided in Zakari & Toplak, (2021) because they relevantly outlined the five features allowing the Hofstede's cultural framework to better capture and represent a country's culture. For the empirical analysis, the current study avails three features of cultural framework and ignore the two: Individualism Index and Long‐Term Orientation Index—on account of insufficient data (Attah‐Boakye et al, 2020; Chaudhry & Shafiullah, 2021).…”

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“…On the one hand, González‐Eguino (2015) has highlighted that the simple replication of energy programs and technologies across locations presenting different cultural features 1 may explain the recursive failure of development aid projects. On the other hand, fostering social inclusion and trust in a multicultural society may significantly lower energy poverty (Chaudhry & Shafiullah, 2021). Using a different approach, Attah‐Boakye et al (2020) showed that corporate innovation, driven by financial and human resources access, can also not be disconnected from the culture prevailing in a country.…”

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High‐tech industries, financial expansion, and low‐carbon energy deployment along the Belt and Road Initiative

Rafique

Schneider

Shahzad

2022

Sustainable Development

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While the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is thought to radically transform trade, financial and industrial patterns in Eurasia, questions remain on how to develop a secure supply of renewable energy without jeopardizing the booming energy demand of those regions. Due to the intrinsic nature of BRI projects, foreign direct investments (FDI) and high‐tech industries are yet known to be two key channels through which resources and renewable energy consumption are deployed along the Belt and Road. This article assesses the empirical interactions among those variables and renewable energy deployment for an illustrative sample of 76 Belt and Road economies. A set of potentially relevant economic and institutional factors (economic complexity, the stock of human capital (HC), and three cultural preferences indexes: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity vs. diversity) are also incorporated within the multivariate setting. Based on series spanning the period 1996–2019, a complete econometric testing framework is developed, and comprises the simultaneous generalized method of moments and the method of moments quantile regression. Associated results confirm our initial intuition that medium and high‐tech industries trigger the diffusion of low‐carbon energies across sectors whereas FDI fail to do so. Finally, renewable energy deployment responds negatively to changes in HC. Along with a methodological note, some policy suggestions are supplied to incorporate those insights within future energy planning.

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High‐tech industries, financial expansion, and low‐carbon energy deployment along the Belt and Road Initiative

Rafique

Schneider

Shahzad

2022

Sustainable Development

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“…Therefore, following Boardman [11], the author of this study assumes that the energy poor are those households in which the expenditure on energy carriers per person exceeds 10% of their disposable income. The analysis of existing research indicates that the literature is more often concerned with the essence or definition of energy and fuel poverty [12][13][14][15], how to measure energy and fuel poverty [16][17][18], the level of fuel poverty [19], the impact of heating expenditure on fuel poverty [20], territorial diversity of this phenomenon [21,22], the influence of cultural dimensions [23], and ethnic fractionalization [24]. The COVID-19 pandemic has also generated interest in the issue of fuel poverty in the context of the impact of the pandemic on fuel poverty levels [25,26].…”

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Macroeconomic Policy versus Fuel Poverty in Poland—Support or Barrier

Nagaj

2022

Energies

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: Energy and climate policies play an increasingly important role in the world in the era of climate change and rising energy prices. More often, the importance of the development of the energy sector and climate protection is seen from the point of view of the expenditures that will need to be absorbed in the economy, with the potential for increased energy prices. However, it should be remembered that this is also related to the issue of fuel poverty and the inability to meet basic energy needs by parts of society. The aim of the paper is to assess the importance of macroeconomic policy instruments in reducing fuel poverty, using Poland as an example. It will be examined whether and how the government influenced this phenomenon (directly or indirectly), through which instruments, and which instruments (fiscal, monetary or energy-climate policy) played the most important role in shaping the scale of fuel poverty in Poland, with an emphasis on the role of monetary and fiscal policy instruments. The analysis covered the period from 2004 to mid-2021. The results of the research showed that in Poland there is a lack of policy directly aimed at reducing fuel poverty, and the government affects the scale of fuel poverty indirectly mainly through macroeconomic policy instruments, i.e., fiscal and monetary policy instruments. The main and most effective instruments for reducing fuel poverty in Poland are social transfers. Other instruments that have a statistically significant impact on this poverty rate are the level of tax burdens and short-term interest rates. The analysis also revealed some opportunities for effective fuel poverty reduction policies. It was proven that in addition to fiscal policy, monetary policy, which would stimulate a decrease in short-term interest rates, is also an effective way to reduce the fuel poverty rate in Poland.

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“…The lack of access and low quality of electrical energy supplied to the home to cover the basic needs of its occupants constitutes a dimension of energy poverty. Other indicators of this dimension include the coverage of electricity, the cost of said energy, and the possession of economic goods related to the nal use of electricity [1][2][3].…”

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Measurement Of Energy Poverty In The Colombian Caribbean Region: Comparative Analysis.

Bayona-Velásquez

Pirela-Ríos

Álvarez

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This research aims to analyze the level of energy poverty and its consequences on the quality of life of the population of the Colombian Caribbean, comparing the results obtained in this region with the data corresponding to the people of Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and the rest from the country. Energy poverty is the deprivation of goods and services that meet basic needs for the non-use of electricity, which affects the health, education, and social inclusion of the affected population. This study applied the method of meeting absolute energy needs, determining the Energy Poverty in the Home (PEH) index. The results indicate that energy-poor households exceed 60% in urban areas and 96% in rural areas, linking energy poverty and school dropout.

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Does culture affect energy poverty? Evidence from a cross-country analysis

Cited by 43 publications

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High‐tech industries, financial expansion, and low‐carbon energy deployment along the Belt and Road Initiative

High‐tech industries, financial expansion, and low‐carbon energy deployment along the Belt and Road Initiative

Macroeconomic Policy versus Fuel Poverty in Poland—Support or Barrier

Measurement Of Energy Poverty In The Colombian Caribbean Region: Comparative Analysis.

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