Vol 10 No 3 (2011), Articles
Submitted: 30-04-2012
Accepted: 30-04-2012
Published: 30-04-2012
The growth of world trade and the opening from new markets for certain economic goodsand services have assumed that the current demand and energy dependence must be adapted to a newcontext in the distribution of international power. In this scenario emerging countries, mostly Asian,whose strength is manifested by an increased consumption of primary energy. This situation, characterizedby strong competition in access and consumption of energy and in which lies a dialectic of power,is no stranger to the vast differences in the distribution of development indicators in industrialized andemerging countries, nor to socioeconomic inequalities whose origin is based on an unequal distributionand utilization of resources, in this case energy.
geopolitics, primary energy, world development indicators