Panacea (medicine)

Energy consumption

Engineering

Ecology

Biology

Embedded system

Nexus (standard)

Energy poverty

Economics

Computer science

Development economics

Alternative medicine

Frontier

Political science

Econometrics

Econometric model

Poverty

Latin Americans

Medicine

Economic growth

Electrical engineering

Pathology

Energy Policy

This paper estimates the association of financial development with energy poverty in Latin America through the entropy method, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and an econometric analysis. Energy poverty scores of Latin American countries are less than unitary, making up for 17.54 percent, which implies that 17.45 percent of the residents did not attain the efficiency frontier of adequate energy consumption. Within all quantiles, the results elucidate that increases in energy poverty are attributed to low levels of financial development. The study provides policy recommendations for energy poverty alleviation through financial development.

Nexus between financial development and energy poverty in Latin America