Energizing the Millennium Development Goals: A Guide to Energy’s Role in Reducing Poverty

UNDP

2005

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While there is no MDG specifically on energy, access to energy services is a prerequisite to the achievement of all eight MDGs. To ensure that a lack of adequate energy does not become a bottleneck to achieving the MDGs, urgent action is needed to move beyond the ‘business-as-usual’ approach to energy. If approached as an integrated part of MDG strategies, access to energy services can be an important instrument in helping promote economic growth, social equality, and environmental sustainability.This guide has been designed to help development practitioners ask the relevant questions needed to bring about this change. It offers an overview of the some of the most pertinent issues regarding development and energy and provides suggestions and examples on how to address energy within broader efforts to reach the MDGs. [Extracto: Foreword]

Acceso a energía; Energía; Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (Millenium Development Goals - MDG); Pobreza;