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Black hole or black gold? : the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finance
Agustina, Rosa (contributor) - 2008
"Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...
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Privatization of the power and natural gas industries in Hungary and Kazakhstan
1999
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Yemen : A Natural Gas Incentive Framework
World Bank - 2012
of the high risk and considerable investment involved in developing a gas sector, attracting foreign capital and …
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Pakistan : Oil and Gas Review
World Bank - 2013
Substantial progess has been made in Pakistan in the restructuring and reform of the oil and gas sectors, deregulation of prices, and privatization of selected assets. The reforms have enhanced transparency, making decisionmakers aware of the various aspects of the business. This review...
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Market-Based Approaches to Managing Commodity Price Risk
World Bank - 2012
Though well-established in the commercial sector, the use of market-based price risk management is not widespread in … advance risk management strategies in countries vulnerable to food and energy price shocks. It focuses specifically on the use … of market-based risk management approaches and use by sovereigns. For governments concerned about the risk of food price …
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Is cost recovery a feasible objective for water and electricity? : the Latin American experience
Foster, Vivien - 2006
"Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are...
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The distributional incidence of residential water and electricity subsidies
Wodon, Quentin (contributor) - 2006
"Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...
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Lessons from international experience with electricity market monitoring
Wolak, Frank A. - 2005
"The author first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring process essential to a well-functioning wholesale market. Some of these features are shared with the securities industry, although the technology of electricity production and...
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Azerbaijan - Raising Rates : Short-Term Implications of Residential Electricity Tariff Rebalancing
World Bank - 2013
Tariffs are low in Azerbaijan and need to be raised to finance badly needed network maintenance and to balance supply and demand. This study presents an analysis of the short-term impacts of a 50 percent electricity tariff increase on residential consumers. The study starts by reviewing...
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Applications of Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Electricity Distribution
World Bank - 2013
In the second half of the 1980s, several electricity companies in developed countries incorporated the automation of the reads of the consumption meters installed in their customers' premises. Adoption of that approach was driven in all the cases by the need to lower the significant costs of...
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