OECD Development Centre Policy Insights

ISSN :
2077-2599 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/20772599
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The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. OECD Development Centre Policy Insights is a series of policy-oriented occasional papers drawn from the Development Centre’s Work Programme. All titles are generally available in the two official languages of the OECD: English and French.
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Energy and Poverty in Africa You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Céline Kauffmann1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
01 May 2005
Bibliographic information
No.:
8
Pages
6
DOI
10.1787/020412410348

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Access to energy is essential for economic, social and political development. Despite its enormous potential in fossil and renewable energy sources, Africa suffers from major energy deficits. The continent’s resources are underexploited or exported in raw form or wasted in the course of extraction or transport. As a result, supplies available for local populations are largely insufficient and energy consumption is essentially reliant on biomass.
Also available in: French