Exploring the linkages between energy, gender, and enterprise: Evidence from Tanzania

Pueyo, Ana; Carreras, Marco; Ngoo, Gisela

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104840

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“…The female employment rate shows a positive significant coefficient, implying that increasing the female employment rate by 1% will result in a rise in bioenergy growth by 2.80%. This finding validates [63]. It suggests that bioenergy industry growth in the EU 28 region rises with an increase in female employment rate and social business development.…”

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Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

2021

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The Treaty of European Union (EU) sets out the EU vision for sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. This led us to ask whether or not social business development stimulates the development of the bioenergy sector in the EU28 countries. Given the increasing rates of energy insecurity, environmental pollution, poverty, and unemployment, countries are switching to alternative energy sources that might promote social business development, climate change, and environmental quality. In this scenario, the bioenergy industry has received the attention of scholars and policymakers alike. The role social business development can play in the growth of the bioenergy industry remains uncertain, therefore, further investigation is necessary. This study, therefore, explores the relationships between the bioenergy industry and social business development indicators related to zero emissions, zero poverty, and zero unemployment for EU28 region countries from 1990 to 2018. Empirical evidence is based on the use of a new economic model, dynamic panel co-integration simulations (Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square, Dynamic Ordinary Least Square, and Pooled Ordinary Least Square). The results reveal a negative relationship between EU28′s bioenergy industry growth and carbon dioxide emissions, vulnerable employment, and unemployment rate, suggesting that bioenergy industry growth helps reduce pollution and unemployment. Likewise, bioenergy industry growth increases food supply, economic growth, and female employment and might be the best alternative to fossil fuels. Necessary policy related to bioenergy industry growth can be formulated, especially in achieving the sustainable development goals for social businesses.

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Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

2021

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“…Studies that examined the barriers to the growth of small businesses have found several factors, including (but not limited to) the impact of knowledge economy (Razak et al, 2018); debt collection, lack of working capital and power interruptions (Bowen et al, 2009); poor financial, business and information management by business owners and lack of crucial infrastructural facilities (Ihua, 2009;Adisa et al, 2014;Pueyo et al, 2020); poor marketing and entrepreneurial attributes of owner-managers (Mbugua et al, 2013) and competition (Markos and Sridevi, 2010). Although micro entrepreneurs that create tailoring businesses are faced with similar challenges as other SMEs, the studies that address the specific needs of the micro tailoring businesses are sparse.…”

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Barriers to the growth of micro tailoring businesses in Nigeria: assessing socio-economic and socio-cultural environments

Akoh

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to uncover ways to enhance the growth of micro tailoring businesses by assessing the socio-economic and socio-cultural environments at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Design/methodology/approach The study used a qualitative research design involving a multiple case study with data from semi-structured interview and non-participant observation. Findings The study reveals how micro tailoring businesses modify tailoring practices to cope with the religious practice of seclusion and use entrepreneurial actions to deal with unstable electricity, inadequate finance and conditions of extreme poverty that limit the growth of micro tailoring businesses at the BOP. Research limitations/implications The qualitative nature of this study with a focus on micro tailoring businesses in BOP context could limit the generalization of findings. However, replication of the study can be done in other contexts to validate the findings. Practical implications The study shows the need for entrepreneurial leadership which continually modifies tailoring practices in ways that sustain tailoring businesses and circumvent the possibility of failure in adverse socio-economic and socio-cultural conditions. Originality/value This study is the first to unravel the experiences of micro tailoring businesses at the BOP. Past studies have assessed barriers to the growth of small and medium scale enterprises in general, but this study uncovers the distinct aspects of tailoring business in a largely under-researched context.

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“…Social discrimination can have negative welfare impacts, but can public policies counter these effects? Marginalized groups 1 face higher risk of falling into poverty as inter-group differences consistently persist, even during phases of growth and development [Thorat et al, 2017, Pueyo et al, 2020. These private and public inter-group inequalities hamper 'social empowerment', a notion essential to the fabric of inclusive growth.…”

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Electrification and welfare for the marginalized: Evidence from India

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Uneven electrification can be a source of welfare disparity. Given the recent progress of electrification in India, we analyze the differences in access and reliability of electricity, and its impact on household welfare for marginalized and dominant social groups by caste and religion. We carry out longitudinal analysis from a national survey, 2005-2012, using OLS, fixed effects, and panel instrumental variable regressions. Our analysis shows that marginalized groups (Hindu Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe and Muslims) had higher likelihood of electricity access compared to the dominant groups (Hindu forward castes and Other Backward Caste). In terms of electricity reliability, marginalized groups lost less electricity hours in a day as compared to dominant groups. Results showed that electrification enabled marginalized households to increase their consumption, assets and move out of poverty; the effects were more pronounced in rural areas. The findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring consumption, and use of more recent data set, 2015-2018. We posit that electrification improved the livelihoods of marginalized groups. However, it did not reduce absolute disparities among social groups.

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Exploring the linkages between energy, gender, and enterprise: Evidence from Tanzania

Cited by 32 publications

References 31 publications

Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Barriers to the growth of micro tailoring businesses in Nigeria: assessing socio-economic and socio-cultural environments

Electrification and welfare for the marginalized: Evidence from India

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