In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are active debates about whether increases in energy access should be driven by …

from natural gas and refined petroleum products. All three end-use energy sources are mispriced due in part to the unpriced … the fuels with a large survey of California households' energy use, we calculate the distribution of annual fuel costs for … electricity for these energy services …

energy transitions. I show that the economy becomes increasingly locked-in to the dominant sector when machines and energy … resources are substitutes, but a transition away from the dominant sector is possible when machines and energy resources are …

This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by … private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from "Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods … and Challenges" (Newell and Qian 2015). These projections agree that global energy consumption growth in the coming 25 …

We explore the principal trends that are shaping the future landscape of energy supply, demand, and trade. We take a … scale, as well as assess the key regional dynamics that are substantially altering the energy scene. The shift from West to … East in the locus of energy growth and the turnaround of North American gas and oil production are the most pronounced of …

Most of the medium-run growth in energy demand is forecast to come from the developing world, which consumed more total … units of energy than the developed world in 2007. We argue that the main driver of the growth is likely to be increased … acquire appliances, such as refrigerators, and vehicles for the first time. These new goods require energy to use and energy …

We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …