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Why the Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The paper explores the rationale behind the complexities of energy poverty among different income groups in rural communities. We attempted to explain why rural rich, despite their relatively high purchasing power use energy sources which tend to categorize them as energy poor. Using the Energy Poverty Survey (EPS) a dataset of more than 600 rural households from 27 different rural communities of Punjab, Pakistan, we presented the energy access situation in rural households among different income groups. Subsequently, we used binary logit regressions to assess the influence of access factors on energy source choices among different income groups. The influence of occupation and household income, membership and size is also assessed. The limited significance of household income for traditional biomass use and high significance of community remoteness indicators imply that households give high importance on the proximity of energy sources available to them and, in many cases, will prefer to be in the state of energy poverty, than to use a modern energy source like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Author’s Note This paper originally appeared in the Working Paper Series (ISSN 1871-9872) of UNU-MERIT (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology). UNU-MERIT working papers intend to disseminate preliminary results of research carried out at the Centre, to stimulate discussion on the issues raised. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8W09HRK/download |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
