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Who benefits from the decentralized energy system (DES)? Evidence from Nepal’s micro-hydropower (MHP)

In low-income countries, uneven access to clean energy has posed a challenge to reduce socioeconomic inequalities across gender and disadvantaged groups. To address this issue, development planners see potentials from the decentralized energy system (DES) that provides electricity access in those areas where the national electricity grid is not available. To assess whether the DES helps reduce inequality and improve gender empowerment, this study focuses on the micro-hydropower (MHP) scheme, a widely adopted DES in Nepal, to study its impact on educational attainment and employment outcomes by caste and gender. The results show MHP improves the educational outcomes and facilitates a labour shift from traditional agriculture to waged and salaried jobs. However, a disaggregated analysis shows the educational outcome of access to MHP electricity is higher for women and lower caste individuals; however, the positive employment related effects are inclined toward socially dominant groups like males and upper caste individuals. These results reveal that while in general the DES improves educational and labour market outcomes, it may need complementary conditions to signify its labour effects on women and lower caste individuals.

Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Economic Development
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Alternative Energy Sources
Thema
Decentralized energy system
education
labour market
caste
gender

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Subedi, Mukti Nath
Bharadwaj, Bishal
Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Kiel, Hamburg
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.05.0012, 07:20 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Preprint

Beteiligte

  • Subedi, Mukti Nath
  • Bharadwaj, Bishal
  • Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2021

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