The Economist Article Rating

Africa will remain poor unless it uses more energy

Nov 05, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -55% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% :Namibia's green-hydrogen project is symbolic of the optimism about renewable energy in Africa.
65% : Hydropower can help, but only in places blessed with steep valleys and rivers.
57% : Happily, in much of the continent renewables are already cost-competitive with gas and coal.
51% : And despite many European countries' refusal to finance overseas gas projects, the European Union recently labelled the fuel as green, which would allow Europe's projects to be backed by environmental investors.
48% : Most African utilities do not charge tariffs that reflect costs.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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