Yacob Mulugetta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yacob Mulugetta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulugetta |
| SIGNATURE | MULUGETTA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3191-8896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate, power, and structural reforms: The political economy of international financial institutions and climate-resilient development
IFIs have strengthened climate integration in their programmes, but implementation remains uneven across institutions and regions. • Transformative change is constrained by systemic barriers, fiscal limits, weak institutional capacity, and complex political dynamics. • Local ownership is key but fragile; context-sensitive, politically informed approaches are crucial for successful climate-aligned reforms. • Expanding concessional finance and clim…
A discourse analysis of fuel subsidy reduction: Revisiting the political economy of Indonesia’s experiences 1998–2019
While most scholars argue that reducing fuel subsidies should be a policy priority, they also note that once subsidies are in place, many countries, including Indonesia, find it hard to reduce them. This paper examines the complexity of Indonesia’s fuel subsidy reforms from 1998 to 2019, investigating key actors and narratives that shave have their trajectory. It undertakes discourse analysis of purposively sampled news articles from two credible…
Towards Resilient and Inclusive Climate Compatible Development: A Participatory, Mixed-Method Scenarios Approach for Zambia
Presents a novel scenarios approach for planning resilient and inclusive climate compatible development. • Applies novel scenario approach to explore climate compatible development in Zambia. • Resilient development can be supported through economic and energy-system diversification. • Inclusive development can be supported through building knowledge, skills and internal capacities. • Multi-level governance and fair development partnerships with …
A review of Indonesia's Jetp through the dynamics of its policy regime
During its 2022 G20 presidency, Indonesia committed to reducing carbon emissions through the Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). In addition to other policies, the Partnership is designed to drive the country's broader energy transition and net‐zero aspirations for decades to come. In addition to technical challenges, the Partnership is expected to face social and political resistance. Considering its importance for Indonesia's s…
Developing community energy systems to facilitate Ethiopia's transition to sustainable energy
In Ethiopia, renewable energy offers people an affordable, dependable, and eco-friendly power supply while decreasing the carbon footprint. However, delivering a renewable future for the country requires a massive change in social practices and systems of provision. The slow progress of renewable development is hindering the transition to a cleaner energy future. Over 80 % of people live in rural areas where it is expensive to reach them via grid…
Don't cook or iron with it”: Heterogeneities and coping strategies for accessing and using electricity in the informal settlements of Kampala, Uganda
Uganda has one of the highest energy access deficits in the world, so low-income households improvise to access electricity, often through heterogeneous infrastructure arrangements. This study investigated energy heterogeneity in Uganda's informal settlements, expressed through the coping strategies that households adopt to access and use electricity. The paper is based on fieldwork conducted in Nakulabye slum, Kampala over a period of two months…
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market
Renewable energy activities have increasingly become the central component of China’s proposed green Belt and Road Initiative. Yet, scaling up these activities requires significant institutional changes of the current Chinese state and financial-industrial complex. Informed by a conceptual framework that builds on multi-level institutional analysis, we assess the institutional challenges constraining the scalability of Chinese renewable energy pr…
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique
Background Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rural and urban areas. Much research to date on community energy systems has focused on their deployment in Europe and North America. This paper advances these debates by looking at how commun…
Counting the cost: Coping with tariff increases amidst power supply shortfalls in urban households in Ethiopia
Energy access for sustainable development
It is abundantly clear that adequate, reliable and clean energy services are vital for the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In essence, energy access has come to represent one of the intractable challenges in development, and therefore emblematic of the call for poverty eradication, and economic and social transformation. This focus issue on 'Energy Access for Sustainable Development' is initiated to draw broadly f…
Harnessing deep mitigation opportunities of urbanisation patterns in LDCs
Governing green industrialisation in Africa: Assessing key parameters for a sustainable socio-technical transition in the context of Ethiopia
The concept of ‘sustainable industrialisation’ is now integral to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, there are no historical examples or current models to emulate. Scholarly analyses of putative initiatives to green industrialisation, especially in developing countries, are few and limited. This article explores the conception and implementation of green industrialisation in Ethiopia, one of the world’s poorest nations, where an amb…
Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals
Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation
The assessment literature on climate change solutions to date has emphasized technologies and options based on cost-effectiveness analysis. However, many solutions to climate change mitigation misalign with such analytical frameworks. Here, we examine demand-side solutions, a crucial class of mitigation options that go beyond technological specification and cost-benefit analysis. To do so, we synthesize demand-side mitigation options in the urban…
Equity, burden sharing and development pathways: Reframing international climate negotiations
Negotiating solidarity? The G77 through the prism of climate change negotiations
The negotiating group of developing countries, the G77, is one of the most important institutions in global climate governance. This article analyses the cohesiveness of, and internal tension within, the G77 coalition by using the politics of climate change as the empirical window. The study examines four arenas of UN-based deliberations on climate change in the years 2007–2010; the Security Council, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the…
Governing green industrialisation in Africa: Assessing key parameters for a sustainable socio-technical transition in the context of Ethiopia
The concept of ‘sustainable industrialisation’ is now integral to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, there are no historical examples or current models to emulate. Scholarly analyses of putative initiatives to green industrialisation, especially in developing countries, are few and limited. This article explores the conception and implementation of green industrialisation in Ethiopia, one of the world’s poorest nations, where an amb…
Negotiating solidarity? The G77 through the prism of climate change negotiations
The negotiating group of developing countries, the G77, is one of the most important institutions in global climate governance. This article analyses the cohesiveness of, and internal tension within, the G77 coalition by using the politics of climate change as the empirical window. The study examines four arenas of UN-based deliberations on climate change in the years 2007–2010; the Security Council, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the…
Equity, burden sharing and development pathways: Reframing international climate negotiations
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique
Background Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rural and urban areas. Much research to date on community energy systems has focused on their deployment in Europe and North America. This paper advances these debates by looking at how commun…
Counting the cost: Coping with tariff increases amidst power supply shortfalls in urban households in Ethiopia
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market
Renewable energy activities have increasingly become the central component of China’s proposed green Belt and Road Initiative. Yet, scaling up these activities requires significant institutional changes of the current Chinese state and financial-industrial complex. Informed by a conceptual framework that builds on multi-level institutional analysis, we assess the institutional challenges constraining the scalability of Chinese renewable energy pr…
Negotiating solidarity? The G77 through the prism of climate change negotiations
The negotiating group of developing countries, the G77, is one of the most important institutions in global climate governance. This article analyses the cohesiveness of, and internal tension within, the G77 coalition by using the politics of climate change as the empirical window. The study examines four arenas of UN-based deliberations on climate change in the years 2007–2010; the Security Council, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the…
Equity, burden sharing and development pathways: Reframing international climate negotiations
Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation
The assessment literature on climate change solutions to date has emphasized technologies and options based on cost-effectiveness analysis. However, many solutions to climate change mitigation misalign with such analytical frameworks. Here, we examine demand-side solutions, a crucial class of mitigation options that go beyond technological specification and cost-benefit analysis. To do so, we synthesize demand-side mitigation options in the urban…
Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals
Energy access for sustainable development
It is abundantly clear that adequate, reliable and clean energy services are vital for the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In essence, energy access has come to represent one of the intractable challenges in development, and therefore emblematic of the call for poverty eradication, and economic and social transformation. This focus issue on 'Energy Access for Sustainable Development' is initiated to draw broadly f…
Harnessing deep mitigation opportunities of urbanisation patterns in LDCs
Governing green industrialisation in Africa: Assessing key parameters for a sustainable socio-technical transition in the context of Ethiopia
The concept of ‘sustainable industrialisation’ is now integral to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, there are no historical examples or current models to emulate. Scholarly analyses of putative initiatives to green industrialisation, especially in developing countries, are few and limited. This article explores the conception and implementation of green industrialisation in Ethiopia, one of the world’s poorest nations, where an amb…
Counting the cost: Coping with tariff increases amidst power supply shortfalls in urban households in Ethiopia
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique
Background Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rural and urban areas. Much research to date on community energy systems has focused on their deployment in Europe and North America. This paper advances these debates by looking at how commun…
Don't cook or iron with it”: Heterogeneities and coping strategies for accessing and using electricity in the informal settlements of Kampala, Uganda
Uganda has one of the highest energy access deficits in the world, so low-income households improvise to access electricity, often through heterogeneous infrastructure arrangements. This study investigated energy heterogeneity in Uganda's informal settlements, expressed through the coping strategies that households adopt to access and use electricity. The paper is based on fieldwork conducted in Nakulabye slum, Kampala over a period of two months…
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market
Renewable energy activities have increasingly become the central component of China’s proposed green Belt and Road Initiative. Yet, scaling up these activities requires significant institutional changes of the current Chinese state and financial-industrial complex. Informed by a conceptual framework that builds on multi-level institutional analysis, we assess the institutional challenges constraining the scalability of Chinese renewable energy pr…
A review of Indonesia's Jetp through the dynamics of its policy regime
During its 2022 G20 presidency, Indonesia committed to reducing carbon emissions through the Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). In addition to other policies, the Partnership is designed to drive the country's broader energy transition and net‐zero aspirations for decades to come. In addition to technical challenges, the Partnership is expected to face social and political resistance. Considering its importance for Indonesia's s…
Developing community energy systems to facilitate Ethiopia's transition to sustainable energy
In Ethiopia, renewable energy offers people an affordable, dependable, and eco-friendly power supply while decreasing the carbon footprint. However, delivering a renewable future for the country requires a massive change in social practices and systems of provision. The slow progress of renewable development is hindering the transition to a cleaner energy future. Over 80 % of people live in rural areas where it is expensive to reach them via grid…
A discourse analysis of fuel subsidy reduction: Revisiting the political economy of Indonesia’s experiences 1998–2019
While most scholars argue that reducing fuel subsidies should be a policy priority, they also note that once subsidies are in place, many countries, including Indonesia, find it hard to reduce them. This paper examines the complexity of Indonesia’s fuel subsidy reforms from 1998 to 2019, investigating key actors and narratives that shave have their trajectory. It undertakes discourse analysis of purposively sampled news articles from two credible…
Towards Resilient and Inclusive Climate Compatible Development: A Participatory, Mixed-Method Scenarios Approach for Zambia
Presents a novel scenarios approach for planning resilient and inclusive climate compatible development. • Applies novel scenario approach to explore climate compatible development in Zambia. • Resilient development can be supported through economic and energy-system diversification. • Inclusive development can be supported through building knowledge, skills and internal capacities. • Multi-level governance and fair development partnerships with …
Climate, power, and structural reforms: The political economy of international financial institutions and climate-resilient development
IFIs have strengthened climate integration in their programmes, but implementation remains uneven across institutions and regions. • Transformative change is constrained by systemic barriers, fiscal limits, weak institutional capacity, and complex political dynamics. • Local ownership is key but fragile; context-sensitive, politically informed approaches are crucial for successful climate-aligned reforms. • Expanding concessional finance and clim…
Economics (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Environmental economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works)