Paper Title
The Relationship Between Per Capita Electricity Consumption and Human Development Indices

Abstract
Electricity consumption is regarded as an indication of the country's level of human development and the level of human development measures a country�s performance in key areas. The present paper aims to study the causal relationship between per capita consumption of electricity and 3 selected indices of human development. For this purpose, the data for 30 selected developing countries over the period 1985-2011 were analyzed. The interactions between per capita consumption of electricity and human development indices were analyzed using Hsiao's causality test. The results suggested a two-way causal relationship between per capita electricity consumption and GDP per capita, consumption expenditure per capita, and life expectancy at birth. Therefore, electricity consumption has proven to be essential for economic development and governments should pay a special attention to electricity industry and facilitation of people�s access to electricity. Keywords� Electricity Consumption, Panel data, Developing Countries, Human Development.