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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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Addressing the Electricity Access Gap

World Bank - 2013

Achieving universal access to electricity is one of the most important goals set for the energy sector by governments in the developing world. Electricity alone is not sufficient to spur economic growth, but it is certainly necessary. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human...

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Paying the price for unreliable power supplies : in-house generation of electricity by firms in Africa

Foster, Vivien - 2009

"This paper documents the prevalence of in-house generation of electric power by firms in Sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to identify the underlying causes. The analysis is based on two data sources. The UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base (WEPP), a global inventory of electric power...

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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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Water, electricity, and the poor : who benefits from utility subsidies?

Komives, Kristin (contributor) - 2005

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Have consumers benefited from the reforms in the electricity distribution sector in Latin America?

Estache, Antonio - 2004

"Estache and Rossi bring new empirical evidence on the impact of the choice of ownership and regulatory regime on firms' productivity and prices paid by consumers. They collect the evidence from a sample of electricity distribution companies in Latin America. The authors rely on estimations of...

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Nepal : Proposed Power Sector Development Strategy

World Bank - 2013

A major policy objective of the Government of Nepal is to develop its vast hydro power resource potential, to serve electricity needs, and generate export revenue. But, while recent progress has been made in developing regulations, and policies to attract investments for hydropower development,...

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Policy Study on Electricity Universal Service in China

World Bank - 2012

This policy study on universal access to electric power (universal service) in China is based on research conducted by … the China Electricity Regulatory Commission in 2006. China's policy on universal service has three facets: First … China were surveyed, with emphasis on six major metropolitan regions. A comparative study was made of the Chinese postal and …

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China : power sector regulation in a socialist market economy

Shao, Shiwei (contributor) - 1997

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A Sure Path to Sustainable Solar : Solar Deployment Guidelines

Agence Française de Développement; International …; … - 2019

Achieving global goals for access to energy and mitigation of climate change will require a quadrupling of present levels of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation in the developing world by 2025 to reach around 950 gigawatt (GW)1. This represents an investment of more than US$500 billion in new...

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