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Month of birth and children's health in India
Lokshin, Michael - 2009
variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …
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Climate Vulnerability Assessments : An Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability, Risk, and Adaptation in Albania???s Power Sector
World Bank - 2012
Energy security is a key concern in Albania, which relies on hydropower for about 90 percent of its electricity production. While renewable energy resources like hydropower play a fundamental role in moving the world towards a low-carbon economy, they are also vulnerable to climatic conditions....
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Energy Security Trade-Offs Under High Uncertainty : Resolving Afghanistan's Power Sector Development Dilemma
World Bank - 2016
This paper develops a number of approaches to power sector planning that respond to the uncertainties that Afghanistan faces. It aims to provide an alternative to the "predict then act" approach to planning, which will allow more robust decision making. The paper is divided into two parts: the...
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From the bottom up : how small power producers and mini-grids can deliver electrification and renewable energy in Africa
Tenenbaum, Bernard William - 2014
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More power to India : the challenge of electricity distribution
Pargal, Sheoli - 2014
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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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The impact of privatization on the performance of the infrastructure sector : the case of electricity distribution in Latin American countries
Andrés, Luis - 2006
picture of the effects of privatization on consumers. Fourth, this research covers a longer period of time, and evaluates … privatization, as opposed to previous analyses' short time series data that do not identify long-run outcomes. Finally, the … consists of an econometric model that captures firm fixed effects, firm-specific time trends, and heteroscedasticity …
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Forecasting investment needs in South Africa's electricity and telecommunications sectors
Bogetic, Željko - 2006
"The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and telecommunications...
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