Title: Energy policy imperatives for small developing countries: The Jamaican case

Authors: Arnoldo K. Ventura

Addresses: National Science and Technology Adviser, Kingston, Jamaica

Abstract: The future development of poor countries will require significant increases in the use of energy. If further environmental damage on a global scale is to be avoided as development proceeds, the industrial countries of the developed world must shoulder their share of the responsibility for global crisis and assist the developing world to achieve the technological advances needed to counter the environmental threat. The old ways, in which technologies are developed in the rich countries and offered at high prices to the poor, will be inappropriate to obviate imminent global disaster.

Keywords: developing countries; economic development; energy policy; environmental protection; industrial energy use; Third World development; Jamaica.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1991.063686

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1991 Vol.3 No.4, pp.190-194

Published online: 18 Jul 2014 *

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