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The World Energy Outlook in the Energy & Development debate
Energy services provide an essential input to economic activity and they contribute to social development through education and public health, and help meet the basic human need for food and shelter. Many countries have established a virtuous circle of improvements in energy infrastructure and economic growth, nonetheless today 1.5 billion people are still denied access to electricity and around 2.5 billion people rely on traditional biomass as their primary source of energy.
The World Energy Outlook has devoted attention to the energy and development issue developing for many years a series of databases and analysis in order to:
- Inform the debate with energy-poverty data
- Provide quantitative analysis and projections of energy use in Developing countries
- Sett the energy poverty questions in the global energy context
- Outreach to OECD governments and financial communities
The latest contribution to inform the debate is the WEO-2009 new Electricity Access Database. It incorporates the latest available information to give the most accurate picture to date of the electricity access in the world, by region and by country.
Dr. Birol spoke at the UNDP/WHO conference on energy access on 23rd November 2009 at UN in New York.
See the Chief Economist's Diary
The full series of Energy & Poverty in the WEO series:
Energy Economics: A Place for Energy Poverty in the Agenda? (Energy Journal 2007 Volume 28, Number 3)
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For further information, please contact WEO
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