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Does financial development enhance access to electricity? A rural-urban perspective in India

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  • Shahbaz, Muhammad
  • Siddiqui, Aaliyah
  • Sinha, Avik
  • Bigerna, Simona

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This paper investigates the relationship between financial development and access to electricity for rural and urban India by incorporating economic growth, trade, and foreign direct investment in energy production function. In doing so, we have applied autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing to examine long run cointegration between the variables by accommodating structural break(s) stemming in the series. Our empirical results indicate the presence of cointegration association between access to electricity and its determinants. We note that financial development enhances access to electricity in rural India but declines it in urban India. Economic growth has positive effect on access to electricity. Trade openness and foreign direct investment lower access to electricity in rural India. In urban India, trade openness and foreign direct investment increase access to electricity. The association between financial development and access to electricity is inverted-U shaped for rural and urban India. This paper would present new policy direction for Indian government to enhance access to electricity by using financial development as an economic tool.

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  • Shahbaz, Muhammad & Siddiqui, Aaliyah & Sinha, Avik & Bigerna, Simona, 2024. "Does financial development enhance access to electricity? A rural-urban perspective in India," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 291(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:291:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224002354
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.130464
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