Impact of energy poverty on education inequality and infant mortality in some selected African countries

Sule, Ibrahim Kekere; Yusuf, Abdulmalik M.; Salihu, Muhammad-Kabir

doi:10.1016/j.nexus.2021.100034

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“…Furthermore, RE has a negative significant effect on the EP of the Latin American countries. The results are in line with the research of Awaworyi Churchill and Smyth (2021b) ; Dong et al (2021) , Zhao et al (2021) , Nguyen and Su (2022) , and Sule et al (2022) , who discovered that the impact of GovS on EP is U-shaped in developing countries.…”

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Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Hou

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Energy poverty (EP) is a problem that affects developed and developing economies, and its mitigation is of great significance to social welfare. EP affects Latin American countries, and policymakers have recently attempted to address this issue, particularly in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis. It is essential to measure and evaluate EP to implement strategies and policies effectively. Using a panel quantile regression approach, we investigate the heterogeneous impact of green finance, renewable energy (RE), and energy efficiency (EE) on EP for 33 Latin American countries from 2000 to 2018. Furthermore, certain associated control variables are incorporated into our model to avoid an omitted variable bias. According to empirical results, the impact of independent variables on EP is heterogeneous. Specifically, green finance is an essential source of alleviating EP, and it has a significant positive effect across all quantiles, but it is especially strong in the middle quantiles. RE and EE significantly mitigate EP, with the strongest effects occurring at higher quantiles. By including green finance, RE, and EE as the main explanatory determinants of EP, the findings urge policymakers in Latin American countries to design a comprehensive energy conservation policy to minimize the effects of massive EP.

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Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Hou

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…[7][8][9] Energy poverty leads households to choose inefficient fuels or appliances with high emissions, and there is a growing recognition that energy poverty is part of a vicious cycle that worsens health and educational disparities. 10,11 Interventions that address sources of household emissions present an opportunity to increase access to essential energy services and have the potential to address broader social and economic inequities that influence social determinants of health. 12,13 Access to adequate and affordable energy services have also been shown to deliver social benefits that improve the wellbeing of families.…”

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“…In some regions, identifying and mitigating sources of high emissions originating in households will be critical for addressing national burdens of disease, 4,5 improving air quality, 6 and providing near‐term mitigation of short‐lived climate forcers 7–9 . Energy poverty leads households to choose inefficient fuels or appliances with high emissions, and there is a growing recognition that energy poverty is part of a vicious cycle that worsens health and educational disparities 10,11 . Interventions that address sources of household emissions present an opportunity to increase access to essential energy services and have the potential to address broader social and economic inequities that influence social determinants of health 12,13 .…”

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Effect of a solar lighting intervention on fuel‐based lighting use and exposure to household air pollution in rural Uganda: A randomized controlled trial

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Solar lighting is an alternative to polluting kerosene and other fuel‐based lighting devices relied upon by millions of families in resource‐limited settings. Whether solar lighting provides sustained displacement of fuel‐based lighting sources and reductions in personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) has not been examined in randomized controlled trials. Eighty adult women living in rural Uganda who utilized fuel‐based (candles and kerosene lamps) and/or clean (solar, grid, and battery‐powered devices) lighting were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive a home solar lighting system at no cost to study participants (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03351504). Among intervention group participants, kerosene lamps were completely displaced in 92% of households using them. The intervention led to an average exposure reduction of 36.1 μg/m3 (95% CI −70.3 to −2.0) in PM2.5 and 10.8 μg/m3 (95% CI −17.6 to −4.1) in BC, corresponding to a reduction from baseline of 37% and 91%, respectively. Reductions were greatest among participants using kerosene lamps. Displacement of kerosene lamps and personal exposure reductions were sustained over 12 months of follow‐up. Solar lighting presents an immediate opportunity for achieving sustained reductions in personal exposure to PM2.5 and BC and should be considered in household air pollution intervention packages.

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“…The health indicators include infant mortality rate, incidence of malaria, deaths, and acute respiratory diseases. Electrification helps to decline infant mortality rate (Sule et al 2022 ; Shobande 2020 ). Provision of electricity improves the health quality by using modern health care technologies that decline infant mortality rate.…”

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Analyzing the impact of access to electricity and biomass energy consumption on infant mortality rate: a global perspective

Asghar

Amjad

Rehman

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Conserving the lives of newborns has been a long-standing issue around the world, where 2.4 million babies die in the first month of the life. The literature indicates that the important challenges of social development goals around the globe include affordable and easy access to electricity, promotion of sustainable economic development, and provision of better social services and creation of job opportunities which help in reducing infant mortality rate. This calls for the need to probe into this matter minutely and brings up the ways for reducing the infant mortality rate. The present study is an attempt to analyze the impact of rural and urban electrification and biomass energy consumption on infant mortality rate for the period 1990–2020 using the Panel Quantile Regression (PQR) approach. The results of the study show that in both developed and developing countries, biomass energy consumption has positive impact on infant mortality rate, while rural and urban electrification has proposed the inverted U-shaped relationship with infant mortality in different quantile groups. It is also concluded that few developing countries are failed to achieve the maturity of the inverted U-shaped curve while all developed countries have achieved at the maturity stage. This study recommended that for reducing the infant mortality rate, the world should discourage the use of biomass energy and promote the affordable and easy access to electricity on priority basis.

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Impact of energy poverty on education inequality and infant mortality in some selected African countries

Cited by 32 publications

References 52 publications

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Effect of a solar lighting intervention on fuel‐based lighting use and exposure to household air pollution in rural Uganda: A randomized controlled trial

Analyzing the impact of access to electricity and biomass energy consumption on infant mortality rate: a global perspective

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