DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112263
论文题名: Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?
作者: Hsu E. ; Forougi N. ; Gan M. ; Muchiri E. ; Pope D. ; Puzzolo E.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2021
卷: 154 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Adoption
; Clean fuel
; Cooking
; Household energy
; Loan
; LPG
; Microfinance
英文关键词: Finance
; Liquefied petroleum gas
; Adoption
; Biomass fuels
; Clean fuel
; Cooking fuels
; Household energy
; Liquidity constraints
; Loan
; Microfinance
; Petroleum gas
; Scaling-up
; Fuels
; demand-side management
; energy policy
; energy use
; fuel consumption
; household energy
; liquefied petroleum gas
; low income population
; microfinance
; Kenya
英文摘要: Liquidity constraints are a key barrier to acquisition and sustained use of clean household energy in resource-poor settings. This study evaluates a pilot microfinance initiative in Kenya to help low-income rural households access liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking. Program beneficiaries received a six-month loan that covered all equipment costs and was to be repaid in monthly installments. We present results from surveys of beneficiaries (n = 69) after they began using LPG, as well as 332 non-beneficiaries from the same community (to understand how beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries differ in cooking patterns and socioeconomic outcomes). 94% of beneficiaries had repaid their loan in full and on time at the time of data collection. Meanwhile, beneficiaries were more likely than non-beneficiaries to use LPG as their primary cooking fuel (76.8% of beneficiaries versus 38.8% of non-beneficiaries). While 81.1% of beneficiaries who used LPG as their primary cooking fuel reported multiple fuel use, we find beneficiaries increased LPG use by 5.9 h per week with a corresponding decrease of 4.8 h in weekly use of biomass fuel. Our findings suggest that promoting LPG usage through microloans for equipment is likely to be both commercially viable and beneficial to health through decreased use of polluting biomass fuel. © 2021 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167831
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作者单位: University of California, Berkeley, United States; Global LPG Partnership, New York, United States; University of Liverpool, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Hsu E.,Forougi N.,Gan M.,et al. Microfinance for clean cooking: What lessons can be learned for scaling up LPG adoption in Kenya through managed loans?[J]. Energy Policy,2021-01-01,154