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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Powell, Andrew; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...

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Political Institutions, State Capabilities and Public Policy - International Evidence

Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries’ formal institutions (e.g., political...

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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development Title: El desafío climático y de desarrollo en Amér...

Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank

This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...

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Perspectives for Distributed Generation with Renewable Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis of Case Studies for Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, and Chile

Gischler, Christiaan; Janson, Nils - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

growth. The paper argues that the key rationale for promoting renewable DG in LAC is to reduce the cost of electricity for a … assessed in the light of the experience of Denmark, which has the world's highest share of DG (over 50 percent of electricity …

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Post-Privatization Renegotiation and Disputes in Chile

Basañes, C. Federico; Saavedra, Eduardo; Soto, Raimundo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …

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Power Sector Reform in Latin America: Accomplishments, Failures and Challenges

Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the difficulties in achieving a separation of the roles of the State in an environment in which it continues...

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Coal Fired Power Plants Guidelines: An Approach to Reconciling the Financing of Coal Fired Power Plants with Climate Change Objectives

Boulet, Emmanuel; Flores, Ernesto Monter; Ordóñez, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

-term scenario which describes the need to increase Coal Plants at a faster pace than overall electricity demand; (ii) a technical …

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Market or State?: Three Decades of Reform in the Latin American Electric Power Industry Title: Entre el mercado y el Estado: Tres décadas de reformas en el sector eléctrico de Amér...

Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank

The history of the electric power industry in Latin America has been a continuous search for a formula that would yield a reliable and efficient service, accessible to all. By recognizing the difficulties encountered in the last three decades in implementing all types of models, Market or State?...

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Fossil Fuel Power Plants: Available Technologies and Thermal Plant Prospective Potential in Latin America

Gomelsky, Roberto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The general objective of this study is to provide an overview of fossil-fuel-based electric power technologies other than coal-fired technologies (coal-fired technologies are the subject of a specific guideline that has already been adopted by the IDB) and an assessment of the relevance of these...

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Inter-Fuel Competition in Electricity Generation

Bailey, Jed - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study compares the levelized cost of electricity generated with fossil fuels (including coal, natural gas, fuel … range of levelized cost of electricity for each technology. In addition, the study examined how the cost of electricity was … and levelized costs of electricity by repowering existing thermal power plants or switching high-carbon fuels to lower …

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