Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mirza, Bilal
Author-Email: mirza@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Kemp, Rene
Author-Email: kemp@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, ICIS, Maastricht University
Title: Why Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor
Abstract: The paper tries to explore the rationale behind the complexities of 
	 energy poverty among different income groups in rural communities. We 
	 attempted to understand why rural rich, despite their relatively high 
	 purchasing power use energy sources which tend to categorize them as 
	 energy poor. Using Energy Poverty Survey (EPS), a dataset of more than 
	 600 rural households from 27 different rural communities of Punjab, 
	 Pakistan, we presented energy access situation in rural households among 
	 different income groups. Subsequently, we used logit to assess access 
	 factors which could impact the energy source choices among different 
	 income groups. The insignificance of household income for traditional 
	 biomass use and high significance of community remoteness indicators 
	 imply that households give high importance on the proximity of energy 
	 sources available to them and, in many cases, will prefer to be in the 
	 state of energy poor, than to use modern energy source like LPG.
Classification-JEL: Q01, Q42, I32, O33
Keywords: energy poverty, rural rich, rural poor, rural communities, Punjab,
	 Pakistan, fuelwood, animal waste, plant waste, kerosene, liquid petroleum gas
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 024
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-024.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2009024