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Seminar speaker: Mr Daniel Motinga

Mr Daniel Motinga is a researcher with NEPRU since 1995. He holds a MA in economics from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His areas of primary research lie in macroeconomic policy, poverty, and labour market issues; with secondary research in the use of time-series modeling techniques in understanding the determinants of economic growth and multiplier analysis. Mr. Motinga has been a consultant to the Namibian government on macroeconomic policy and environmental accounting. Currently he is a team-member of the study group that is drafting the long-term macroeconomic vision for Namibia, under the auspices of the government’s Vision-2030 project. Mr. Motinga recently carried out research on the impact of globalization on the labour market as well as the impact of trade liberalization on poverty. Selected recent publications: Daniel Motinga, (2002). Should core labour standards be imposed through international trade policy? An assessment of the debate on globalization and labour standards, Hanns Seidel Foundation Occasional Paper No.2. Hanns Seidel Foundation Namibia, Windhoek. January. With Grace Mohammed, (2002), Causes and consequences of globalization: what implications for the Namibian labour market? NEPRU Policy Brief No. 2. Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, Windhoek. February. Daniel Motinga, (2001). Openness and Economic Growth: is there a longrun relationship for Namibia? NEPRU Working Paper No. 79. Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, Windhoek. With Dirk Hansohm et al. (1999). Policy, Poverty and inequality in Namibia: the cases of trade and land policy, NEPRU Research Report No. 18. Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, Windhoek. With Glen-Marie Lange and Jonathan Barnes, (1998). Cattle numbers, biomass, productivity and land degradation in the commercial farming sector of Namibia, 1915-1995, Development Southern Africa, vol. 15, no. 4. Summer 1998.

Mr Daniel Motinga Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit PO Box 40710 Windhoek NAMIBIA Email: danielm@nepru.org.na

ABSTRACT: Energy, Poverty and Gender: A Situational Analysis This paper examines some of the recent developments in the area of energy, poverty and gender. Following, Barnett (2000), it argues that many of the shifts in development thinking have resulted in the neglect of a number of old truths. In particular that improved access to energy services are a necessary condition for development and poverty reduction; that women are the main managers of the fuel economy of poor households; and that poor people pay a great deal to meet their energy requirements. A brief conceptualisation of the state and measurement of poverty and energy use is presented. The paper argues that the conceptualisation of poverty norms is space-, time-, and society specific and this needs to be borne in mind if a meaning full policy debate is to emerge in terms of how the linkages between poverty, gender and energy are explored. [view paper]