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Energy efficiency in developing countries Policy options and the poverty dilemma
Author(s) -
Pachauri Rajendra K.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1990.tb00534.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , energy poverty , developing country , standard of living , poverty , agriculture , energy (signal processing) , natural resource economics , population , rural area , economic growth , economics , business , development economics , geography , political science , environmental health , market economy , medicine , philosophy , statistics , alternative medicine , mathematics , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , law , panacea (medicine)
Much of the rural population of the developing countries is poor and depends on agriculture for its living. One means of improving the standard of living of such poor peoples is through the introduction of modern more intensive and therefore more productive agricultural methods. Such methods will require energy intensification. The resulting increase in energy demand particularly electrical energy, will be very large, especially because the rural areas are least able to benefit from energy saving technologies.