Chapter 1 The Global Face of Energy Poverty

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is an essential component in the design of any effort to alleviate what is fun…

Towards a Better Understanding of Energy Poverty

As we have seen in previous chapters, energy poverty can be succinctly described as the inability to access the levels of clean energy required for essential basic household energy services1 such as heating, lighting, cooking, etc., which can constrain people’s ability to live the life they value most

Chapter 4 Development and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation and the slow rate of employme…

Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within…

The politics of poverty in contemporary Russia

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Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition

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Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World

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