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Article: Energy efficiency: the key to international growth.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Rapidly emerging new technologies could have great consequences for the developing worlds efforts to meet the basic needs of its growing population.
SINCE THE 1973 oil embargo, industrial countries have made large gains in using energy more economically. For the 24 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, energy use rose only one-fifth as much as economic growth. However, these gains largely have bypassed developing countries, where use soared 20% faster than economic expansion during the same period.
Developing nation economies now require 40% more energy than industrial ones to produce the same value of goods and ...