Energy poverty amidst abundance in Malaysia: placing energy in multidimensional poverty

Tinashe Kitchen and Patrick O'Reilly

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 2, 203-213

Abstract: In developing countries the analysis of energy poverty has been framed in terms of a nexus; linking poverty, gender, and energy as obstacles to sustainable development. This article considers the dual challenges of energy and fuel poverty in Malaysia, a middle-income country boasting high levels of grid penetration, suggesting that there are limitations to this approach in relation to articulating the relationship between energy and poverty, specifying the dynamics of energy poverty, and informing policies to address this. Locating energy deprivation in the context of multidimensional poverty offers a basis for addressing energy poverty in a wider range of spatial and temporal contexts.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1133562

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