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Learning from Large-Scale Solar Home System Electrification in Bangladesh
World Bank - 2022
The Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS) Program contributed significantly to achieving near-universal access to electricity by installing over 4 million SHSs from 2003 to 2018, serving 16 percent of rural households by 2016. The government mobilized USD 683 million in loans and grants from...
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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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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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Doing Business 2014 : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises
World Bank - 2013
Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures … economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies …
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New tools for studying network industry reforms in developing cuntries : The telecommunications and electricity regulation database
Haggerty, Luke (contributor) - 2004
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Regional Power Integration : Structural and Regulatory Challenges
World Bank - 2012
The Central America Regional Electricity Market (MER) trades electricity and transmission capacity among six Central American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The market differs from other electricity markets worldwide because it has its own...
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DB 14 Case Studies : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises
World Bank - 2014
The Doing Business (DB) project measures the number of procedures, time and cost for a small and medium-size limited liability company to start up and formally operate. This DB 2014 report addresses issues such as minimum capital requirements, and the role of risk-based inspections in...
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Convergence : Policy and Regulatory Response
World Bank - 2013
In the most general sense, convergence is the integration of any traditionally segmented areas of communications systems. Convergence is happening today in Egypt, and is driven by the growth of digital media and packet data communication. In specific terms, it is essential that the Government of...
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Bulgaria's Policy for Regulatory Reform in the European Union : Converging with Europe's Best Regulatory Environments
World Bank - 2013
Economy and Energy to develop a national plan for better regulation. The goal is to progressively achieve a low-cost, low … intended to improve the ability of the central government to promote regulatory reform, to build better regulation practices … through the institutions of governments, and to improve the quality of both the stock and the flow of regulation on a …
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Power's promise : electricity reforms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Lampietti, Julian A. - 2004
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