ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL ENERGY POVERTY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

Yi Wang (), Jianhe Wang (), Lei Wang (), Li Zhang () and Ziman Xiang
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Yi Wang: School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100091, P. R. China
Jianhe Wang: Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, P. R. China
Lei Wang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
Li Zhang: National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
Ziman Xiang: Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing 100031, P. R. China

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2023, vol. 68, issue 04, 1231-1250

Abstract: Sustainable development places a premium on recognizing people at risk of energy poverty, defined as the incapability to get a sufficient level of residential energy services. Therefore, this study analyses the relationship between economic development and rural energy poverty in Chinese regions. Using statistics from the China Families Panel Studies, it is observed that the Great Chinese Drought increased the risk of living in poverty. We conclude that there is wide variation in China’s regions regarding economic liberalization and the country’s energy deprivation. In provinces with different degrees of poverty, there is an inverse U-shaped association between economic growth and the country’s energy poverty. The country’s energy poverty reduced or even eliminated by advancing economic development to a specific degree. Many socioeconomic indicators at the home level are connected with energy poverty in various ways depending on the dimension, implying that individualized criteria are required to classify vulnerable families in each size and country-level considerations.

Keywords: Energy poverty; China Families Panel Studies; economic development; China’s region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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