Does energy aid improve energy efficiency in developing countries?

Socioeconomic inequalities and the role of sectoral foreign aid in developing countries

“…The details of the calculation of the affinity index and the instrumental strategies are described in Maruta et al. (2020) and Maruta and Banerjee (2020). The countries that are the most prominent donors of sectoral aid are the USA, Canada, France and the UK.…”

Sustainable energy deployment in developing countries: The role of composition of energy aid

“…Although the focus of the literature on aid effectiveness has shifted to sectoral ODA efficacy, studies on energy aid effectiveness seem to scanty (Tirpak and Adams, 2008;Bruggink, 2012;Bjørnskov, 2019;Yang and Park, 2020). Unlike Pohl and Mulder (2013), who analyse the effect of aggregate ODA on the probability of adopting non-hydro renewable electricity sources, Kretschmer et al (2013), Maruta and Banerjee (2020), Gualberti et al (2014) focus on sectoral ODA effectiveness. In particular, these studies consider the effects of energy aid commitments and find a positive impact on energy intensity and electricity installed capacity.…”

Foreign Aid and Tourism Induced Electricity Consumption in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

“…In fact as Rogner (2018) argues, energy has long been the stepchild of foreign development aid (Gomez-Echeverri, 2018;Rogner, 2018) where only few studies have been carried out. For instance, Dhungel (2014) for Nepal found that foreign aid increases electricity consumption while Amin and Murshed (2017) for Bangladesh did not find any causality between electricity consumption and foreign aid but Maruta and Banerjee (2021) found that energy aid has a significant positive effect on the energy efficiency of aid recipient countries.…”