A Review of Rural Household Energy Poverty: Identification, Causes and Governance

Li Lin, Zhihai Wang, Jiaxiang Liu and Xiaocang Xu ()
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Li Lin: School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
Zhihai Wang: School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
Jiaxiang Liu: School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
Xiaocang Xu: School of Economics and Management, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China

Agriculture, 2023, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-23

Abstract: Energy poverty is one of the three major crises of the global energy system. It tends to deepen as a result of the imbalance between supply and demand, energy transition and financial factors, especially in rural areas of developing countries. This paper took rural household energy poverty as the subject and collected 27 Chinese papers and 44 English papers from Google Scholar, Sci-hub, CNKI and other academic websites in the academic field on the definition, identification methods, influencing factors and governance countermeasures of energy poverty. It focused on analyzing the influence of income level, geographic location, urban–rural differences, demographic characteristics and other factors on energy poverty, as well as the profound impact of energy poverty on the population’s health, the population’s economic status, social equity, welfare of the population, the national economic development, etc. It finally landed on the government’s countermeasures to govern energy poverty so as to provide references for solving the problem of energy poverty by systematically sorting out the literature.

Keywords: rural household; energy poverty; identification methods; influencing factors; government governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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