Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently published a very interesting economic working paper entitled "Energy Access and Energy Security in Asia and the Pacific". This paper was prepared by Professor B. K. Sovacool.
It is a very good paper that tackles the often forgotten global issues.
The working paper discuss on energy security, deprivation and poverty, which mainly covers electricity access in the Asia and Pacific (APAC) region.
I have always thought of poverty as being deprived of money, but this is the first time that I hear the word "energy poverty".
The ADB defined energy poverty as:-
"the absence of sufficient choice in accessing adequate, affordable, reliable, high-quality, safe and environmentally benign energy services to support economic and human development."
It makes me sad that there are still people out there that do not have proper access to electricity.
I am shocked when I read the statistics produced in this paper -- that there are still many people on this planet earth that are deprived of electricity -- one of the basic needs in this era.
In this paper, the good professor outlined that the consequence of energy deprivation include poverty, death, gender inequality and energy degradation.
Read on, folks. The report is absolutely timely.
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Source: http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2013/ewp-383.pdf
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