Effects of income inequality and governance on energy poverty alleviation: Implications for sustainable development policy

Title: Effects of income inequality and governance on energy poverty alleviation: Implications for sustainable development policy
Creator: Acheampong, Alex O.; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Dzator, Janet; Jiao, Zhilun
Relation: Utilities Policy Vol. 78, Issue October 2022, no. 101403
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2022.101403
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: This paper examines the effects of income inequality and governance on access to electricity using a panel of 43 SSA countries from 1990 to 2017. The results from the two-step GMM estimator revealed that while income inequality substantially reduced access to electricity, governance has been ineffective in improving it. The findings showed that governance interacts with income inequality and economic growth to reduce access to electricity. Comparative analysis suggested that these findings vary among the SSA sub-regions. We argue that energy poverty alleviation requires firm political will and an effective governance system to close the income inequality gap.
Subject: energy poverty; governance; income inequality; sustainable development
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449276
Identifier: uon:43628
Identifier: ISSN:0957-1787
Language: eng
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