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September 7, 2026Sustainable FuturesOpen Access

The dynamic impact of financial intermediary services, institutional quality, and environmental taxation on energy poverty in South Asia: The mediating role of renewable energy penetration

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ZJZhao JiangLWLijia WangDCDan Chen

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Econometric analysis reveals financial development and phased renewable adoption reduce energy poverty in South Asia, indicating strong governance is critical for clean energy transitions.

Key Points

  • To examine the dynamic impacts of financial intermediary services, institutional quality, and environmental taxation on energy poverty in South Asia, focusing on the mediating role of renewable energy adoption.
  • Applied an autoregressive distributed lag error correction model (ARDL-ECM) framework to panel data from South Asia covering 1995 through 2023.
  • Financial development significantly reduced energy poverty over the long term only when institutional quality exceeded the 32.6th percentile threshold.
  • Renewable energy penetration exerted a dual-phase mediating effect, initially exacerbating energy poverty in the short term before substantially reducing it in the long run.
  • Environmental taxation displayed an insignificant direct effect on energy poverty, but exerted a beneficial indirect reduction by incentivizing renewable energy transitions.

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Jiang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9e8576c3034f961570dafahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2026.102128
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