The role of sustainable energy utility, natural resource utilization and waste management in reducing energy poverty: Evidence from South Asian countries

Fengsheng Chien, Muhammad Sadiq, Li Li and Arshian Sharif ()

Utilities Policy, 2023, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Energy poverty is still viewed as a central global challenge which is risking billions of lives belonging to all economies, particularly, developing and under developing economies. It is subjected that more than 1 billion people are still struggling to have access to electricity and around 2.7 billion burns non-renewable resources to make their daily meals ready. The encourages academia to explore the plausible solutions to alleviate energy poverty. In this regard, the present study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of sustainable energy and utility, natural resource utilization and waste management on energy poverty reduction. The study chose South Asian economies as a sample study and assessed the data from 2011 to 2020. By utilizing MMQR, the obtained results expose that RE output and consumption, natural resource utilization, waste management, inflation, and industrialization are helpful in reducing energy poverty due to their positive linkage. Under the evidence, the study is able to offer empirical baseline for future researchers to address the similar problem in other set of countries.

Keywords: Natural resource utilization; Waste management; Energy poverty reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2023.101581

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