Unpacking authoritarian governance in electricity policy: Understanding progress, inconsistency and stagnation in Tanzania

Dye, Barnaby

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102209

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“…Ref. [64] factored in the impact of the authoritarian governance regime on electricity generation in Tanzania from 2005 to 2021. The study noted that consistent substantive increases were achieved in electricity under focused centralized dominant regimes, though the results obtained were reduced during the centralized fragmented regimes.…”

Section: Electricity Generation Economic Growth Socio-political Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pathway to a Sustainable Energy Economy: Determinants of Electricity Infrastructure in Nigeria

Tabash,

Oseni,

Ahmed

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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This study examines the link between energy (using electricity generation as a proxy) and sustainable economic growth alongside the mediating role of salient socio-political factors, such as education, life expectancy, government effectiveness, and governance structure, among others, based on data about the Nigerian economy from 1980 to 2022. We employed a battery of econometric techniques, ranging from unit root tests to autoregressive distributed lag bound tests for cointegration and a modified version of the Granger causality test proposed by Dumitrescu and Hurlin. We also employed general-to-specific estimation techniques to examine the possibility of substituting renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Our results suggest a bi-directional Granger causality between electricity generation and sustainable economic growth. This supports the validity of the feedback hypothesis, suggesting that electricity and sustainable economic growth are interdependent. Our results further revealed that socio-political factors significantly impact electricity generation. The results of our general-to-specific estimation techniques suggest that no possibility of substitution exists between the two main energy sources in Nigeria. This has some key policy implications.

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Section: Electricity Generation Economic Growth Socio-political Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ref. [4] advocates for an enhanced political system environment, and [64] recommends a political settlement framework.…”

Section: Electricity Generation Economic Growth Socio-political Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathway to a Sustainable Energy Economy: Determinants of Electricity Infrastructure in Nigeria

Tabash,

Oseni,

Ahmed

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Similarly, policy change is typically used in a descriptive manner in existing research (Kelkar and Nathan, 2021;Patel et al, 2021). Studies that examine the policy process have created insights on various dynamics in this area, such as the consensus and conflict among different discourses or narratives-including energy access or energy for all-in the energy transition (Mohan and Topp, 2018;Shukla and Swarnakar, 2022;Wibisono et al, 2023); the importance of domestic and international politics in influencing policy activity on energy access (Byrne et al, 2018;Gore et al, 2019;Dye, 2021;Newell and Daley, 2022); the role of policy entrepreneurship in placing the issue on the agenda (Goyal et al, 2020); the challenges that access policies face during implementation, including complexities, corruption, discrimination, and resource logistics (Geall and Shen, 2018;Zaman and Brudermann, 2018;Aklin et al, 2021); and the potential of social movements in changing policy (Delina, 2022).…”

Section: Themes In the Policy-related Research On Energy Accessmentioning

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Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access

Goyal,

Howlett

2023

Front. Sustain. Energy Policy

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IntroductionThe target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services—key for individual, social, and economic well-being—is unlikely to be achieved by 2030 based on the current trend. Public policy will likely need to play a key role in accelerating progress in this regard. Although perspectives from the field of policy studies can support this effort, to what extent they have been employed in the literature on energy access remains unclear.MethodsThis study analyzed nearly 7,500 publications on energy access through a combination of bibliometric review and computational text analysis of their titles and abstracts to examine whether and how they have engaged with public policy perspectives, specifically, policy process research, policy design studies, and the literature on policy evaluation.ResultsWe discovered 27 themes in the literature on energy access, but public policy was not among them. Subsequently, we identified 23 themes in a new analysis of the 1,751 publications in our original dataset, mentioning “policy” in their title or abstract. However, few of them engaged with public policy, and even those that did comprised a rather small share of the literature. Finally, we extracted phrases pertaining to public policy in this reduced dataset, but found limited mention of terms related to the policy process, policy design, or policy evaluation.DiscussionWhile to some extent this might reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the research on energy access, a manual review of the abstracts of select publications corroborated this finding. Also, it shed light on how the literature has engaged with public policy and helped identify opportunities for broadening and deepening policy relevant research on energy access. We conclude that, despite their relevance to energy access, public policy perspectives have infrequently and unevenly informed existing research on the topic, and call on scholars in both communities to address this gap in the future.

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“…On the other hand, frequent power outages in the past might have negatively impacted Tanzania's cold chains. However, the current power supply from the national grid is fairly stable due to additional investment in power generation and rehabilitation of power supply infrastructure (Chambile et al 2021;Dye 2021). To encourage further investment in the cold chain and proper use of the existing cold chain at different nodes of the meat value chain, the government of Tanzania should also review electricity tariffs implemented by the national electric supply company (TANESCO) from time to time to make electricity affordable (Alananga and Igangula 2022;Twesigye 2022).…”

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Breaking the barrier against the purchase of cold meat in Tanzanian consumers for reduction of postharvest losses and improved investment in cold chains: A review

Mushi

2023

Multidiscip. Rev.

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Suppose the realization of Tanzania’s government’s commitment to industrialize the country is to be achieved. In that case, the certainty of value addition to agricultural produce and the resulting extensive supply chain, encompassing meat, becomes apparent. Without the development and utilization of cold chains, progress toward industrialization in the meat industry remains unattainable. Considering the current infrastructure of cold chains in Tanzanian abattoirs, meat processing plants, and specialized retail establishments, the estimated cold storage capacity stands at 6,700 tons of meat per day, equating to 39 kg per capita annually. Despite this capacity, approximately 100,000 metric tons of meat, equivalent to 15% of Tanzania’s yearly production, are lost due to postharvest losses and waste. This substantial loss could be significantly mitigated by appropriately implementing cold chains. However, over 90% of meat consumers in Tanzania and other African countries prefer to purchase warm meat and exhibit an aversion to cold meat. This consumer preference hinders comprehensive investment and the adoption of cold chains in the meat industry to reduce meat spoilage and postharvest losses. To overcome this barrier and bolster industrialization in Tanzania’s meat industry, a three-tier approach is necessary: coordinated consumer awareness campaigns to promote the suitability of cold meat, widespread training of stakeholders in the value chain regarding proper meat handling and storage practices, and the implementation of adequate legislation to guide the gradual transformation of the supply chain towards the provision of cold meat. In conclusion, the current cold storage capacity for meat in Tanzania primarily serves export and niche markets. Efforts are required to shift local consumers’ attitudes towards cold meat, enabling comprehensive investment and utilization of the cold chain in the meat industry to mitigate postharvest meat losses.

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Unpacking authoritarian governance in electricity policy: Understanding progress, inconsistency and stagnation in Tanzania

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Pathway to a Sustainable Energy Economy: Determinants of Electricity Infrastructure in Nigeria

Pathway to a Sustainable Energy Economy: Determinants of Electricity Infrastructure in Nigeria

Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access

Breaking the barrier against the purchase of cold meat in Tanzanian consumers for reduction of postharvest losses and improved investment in cold chains: A review

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