Poverty, Energy, and Resource Use in Developing Countries

Poverty, energy, and resource use in developing countries: focus on Africa.

Energy poverty affects poor communities and poor nations far more severely, and more directly, than in developed nations. Poor rural communities are particularly vulnerable, and the poor globally spend by far the largest percentage of income on energy. To make matters worse, record-high oil prices combined with sharp decline in foreign exchange earnings are key processes influencing the energy ...

Urban Poverty and HealtH in develoPing CoUntries

ABout the Author MaRk R. MontgoMeRy is a professor in the economics department at Stony Brook University and a senior associate with the Population Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program. His current research interests include the links between poverty and demographic behavior in the cities of developing countries; measurement of poverty and poverty dynamics using proxy variables; and the...

Urban Transport and Poverty in Developing Countries

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Causes of Poverty in Developing Countries