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The Role of Sustainable Energy Issues in Development Cooperation by J.C. Jansen; V.W. Buskens is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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## 1. Energy and sustainable macroeconomic development Billions of people, predominantly in the developing world, lack access to essential energy services, prerequisite to the enjoyment of basic humane living standards. At the residential level, the most basic energy services include the ones warranted for cooking and for lighting. In addition, freight and passenger transportation, essential medical health care, communication, and other essential community services are basic amenities in need of energy services. Moreover, the absence of energy, especially electricity, severely limits the scope of economic activities, in particular manufacturing and food-processing activities, for a substantial proportion of the world population. As the provision of basic energy services requires expensive energy infrastructure it, therefore, stands to reason that within public investment expenditure of developing countries appropriations are made to enable energy utilities to expand energy supply infrastructure. This in spite of pressing competing development priorities, such as education, strengthening economic sectors, etc. Furthermore, it does not come as a surprise that developing countries wit
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- Author
- J.C. Jansen; V.W. Buskens
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0921-3449)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)