T he developing world with the majority of the world's population currently consumes the
minority of the world's commercial energy. Their faster income growth and dynamic …

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical estimates of the price and income
elasticities of energy consumption in Egypt. It fills an important gap, since policy discussion …

Income and own-price elasticities of demand for energy for 51 countries in 1980 are
presented based on pooled estimates from an 11-good demand system estimated with the …

The first EMF study," Energy and the Economy," produced estimates of the aggregate
elasticity of substitution for primary energy implicit in six models of energy and the …

A high price elasticity for energy demand implies a long-term ability of the economy to
absorb the impact of higher energy prices. Thus price shocks, after generating pronounced …

This book discusses the characteristics of the demand for energy—its response over time to
changes in prices and in levels of economic activity and the role that energy plays as a …

Energy demand analysis is an important component of integrated energy planning and
policy in developing countries. Planners and policy makers need to have a good …

One of the consequences of the first world oil shock in the early 1970s was a marked
increase in the empirical modelling of energy demand. There appear to be at least four …

In this paper we attempt to identify some of the factors that have determined the level and
pattern of energy demand in developing countries during the 1970s and early 1980s …

This article presents information on sectoral energy demand and structural changes in the
1978-1984 period for 18'less-developed countries'(LDCs) in Asia, Latin America and West …