A MOTIVATION FOR ENERGY BASED POVERTY INDICATORS

Marcel Kohler and Daniel de Haan
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Marcel Kohler: Division of Economics and Finance University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Daniel de Haan: Division of Economics and Finance University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB), 2010, vol. 6, issue 3, 103-107

Abstract: A common method employed in tracking the success of poverty alleviation in ensuring sustainable development is through the use of a set of lead indicators which provide tangible measures of evaluating fluctuations in both poverty and environmental quality. A requirement of such lead indicators is that they be diverse in their approach, as indicators from different disciplines have their strengths and weaknesses. A motivation is made here for broadening the scope of such research through the inclusion of a set of energy based poverty indicators in the area of poverty assessment. Such energy poverty indicators provide an invaluable extra dimension in the assessment in that they relate to all three sustainability spheres: economic, social and environmental.

Keywords: Energy indicators; sustainable development; poverty measurement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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