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Financial dollarization and central bank credibility

Cowan, Kevin - 2003

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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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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism

Keefer, Philip - 2005

. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill … commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are …-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the …

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