We examine the challenges of expanding access to an affordable electricity supply for rural households by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh, India. We used household survey data to assess the consumer attitudes, level of...

Since the oil price shocks of the 1970s, several studies have found significant impacts of oil prices on macro variables. However, it is particularly crucial to know how each micro sector in an economy, such as the residential, transport, industrial and non-energy sectors, respond to oil price...

This work estimates financial development to energy poverty correlation in Latin America through the entropy method, the Principal Component Analysis, and an econometric analysis from 1990 to 2018. The PCA analysis reveals financial development and foreign direct investment as the key variables...

In the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and China's "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" policy, exploring the resilience of energy enterprises for stable economic development has assumed increasing importance. Based on this, our study uses the data of 327 Chinese energy enterprises from...

The phenomenon of carbon inequality (CI) may endanger the sustainable development of society, and is not conducive to common prosperity, so the topic deserves our full attention. To empirically investigate whether and how new energy vehicles (NEV) and smart transportation (ST) affect CI, this...

This study looks at the role of energy transition in reaching carbon neutrality in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries between 2000 and 2020. The panel corrected standard error (PCSE), instrument variables - generalised moment of method (IV-GMM), and quantile...

The main research topic of this paper is whether the realization of common prosperity has a significant nonlinear impact on natural gas consumption. To explore this topic, we first systematically analyze the theoretical mechanism between income inequality and gas use, and then examine the role...

This paper provides an overview of Bangladesh's green financing status, with a particular focus on the renewable energy (RE) sector. Despite having great potential of renewable energy sources, the sector currently consists of a meager 1% share of the energy portfolio. The poor performance of the...

This paper assesses the role of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in the cluster-based development of SMEs over time using firm-level survey data, as well as critically examining the institutional impact on the industrialization process in Bangladesh. The role of...

This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and the role of Fintech, in particular mobile financial services (MFS), in their recovery from COVID-induced losses. The study uses data from a survey of 216 MSMEs from Bangladesh Small...