Energy poverty amidst abundance in Malaysia: placing energy in multidimensional poverty. Issue 2 (17th February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kitchen, Tinashe; O'Reilly, Patrick
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 26:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 213
• Publication Date: 2016-02-17
• Subjects: Aid – Development policies -- Labour and livelihoods – Poverty reduction -- Governance and public policy -- South Asia; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1133562
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In developing countries the analysis of energy poverty has been framed in terms of a nexus; linking poverty, gender, and energy as obstacles to sustainable development. This article considers the dual challenges of energy and fuel poverty in Malaysia, a middle-income country boasting high levels of grid penetration, suggesting that there are limitations to this approach in relation to articulating the relationship between energy and poverty, specifying the dynamics of energy poverty, and informing policies to address this. Locating energy deprivation in the context of multidimensional poverty offers a basis for addressing energy poverty in a wider range of spatial and temporal contexts.