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likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption … and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water. Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much …
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"The author first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring …, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for … an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law …
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In the second half of the 1980s, several electricity companies in developed countries incorporated the automation of …, in particular in electricity distribution companies, are described and analyzed in this report. …
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(SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents … into this category. SPSP provision of networked services appears to be significantly higher for electricity than for water … delivering water supply or electricity. SPSPs take a variety of organizational forms, both for-profit and non-profit. As such …
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labor markets has helped reduce seasonality in income and poverty in regions other than Rangpur in the recent past. Hence … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …
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"Temporary migration programs for unskilled workers are increasingly being proposed as a way to both relieve labor shortages in developed countries and aid development in sending countries without entailing many of the costs associated with permanent migration. New Zealand's new Recognized...
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that poor households benefit disproportionately from water and electricity subsidies, that they are well-targeted to the … subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world …
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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 electricity tariffs, consumption levels, and expenditure patterns compared to …
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This report, based on a household survey conducted in 2006, discusses options for discouraging qat consumption in Yemen. It draws on a survey-the first representative data collection exercise aimed specifically at assessing the qat consumption phenomena-which confirms that the use of this drug...
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