IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v313y2024ics0360544224038921.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

China's household's energy poverty mitigation: An inclusive finance perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Tao, Miaomiao
  • Lin, Boqiang
  • Silva, Emilson

Abstract

Effectively tackling energy poverty is instrumental for ensuring public access to affordable energy, which can accelerate a country's shift toward a low-carbon economy. We explore the influence of financial inclusion in mitigating energy poverty, drawing on household survey data. The main results confirm that inclusive finance plays a significant role in eradicating energy poverty at the household level. The transmission mechanisms reveal that inclusive finance alleviates energy poverty by promoting digitalization, narrowing the digital divide, easing liquidity constraints, offsetting economic losses from natural disasters, and increasing educational investments. Additional heterogeneity analysis indicates that the impact of inclusive finance varies across demographic groups, including region, income, off-farm entrepreneurship, and gender. These findings can offer meaningful insights for policymakers aiming to alleviate energy poverty through financial inclusion.

Suggested Citation

  • Tao, Miaomiao & Lin, Boqiang & Silva, Emilson, 2024. "China's household's energy poverty mitigation: An inclusive finance perspective," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 313(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:313:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224038921
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.134114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544224038921
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2024.134114?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:313:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224038921. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.