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This paper discusses issues and explores options related to the reform of the power sector regulatory system in China. It reviews the power sector's current situation and impediments to reform, examines the relationship between power sector structure and regulation, and suggests several...
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A radical new strategy for dealing with the problems of energy and the environment in the Sahel is being implemented in Niger. Rather than have urban wood traders go into the countryside to cut the wood and truck it back to the cities, the government is giving village communities control over...
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Food Safety Issues in the Developing World examines three main issues: what food security is, how it relates to animal … and plant health, and how food safety hazards have affected people of the developing world. After raising and answering … these important questions this volume makes a case for public investment in improving food safety. The authors demonstrate …
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food security situation, strategic grain reserve operations and management in relation to food emergencies, and …Zambia and Zimbabwe have experienced food security emergencies of varying severity, mainly caused by drought and floods … in some areas. Like several countries in Africa and elsewhere, the two countries have developed and used Strategic Grain …
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, drought events, and grain production in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) region, which accounts for more … utilized to gain a better understanding of (a) the potential impact on grain production of droughts linked to the El Nino …/La Nina phenomenon in RUK, (b) RUK governments' policy response to those events and how domestic and regional grain markets …
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This report has been prepared as a technology selection guide for the use of power system planners and engineers to facilitate the selection of cost-effective, environmentally friendly technologies for coal-based power generation in countries grappling with impending power and capital shortages...
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Hydro resources are provided by nature. The exploitation of such resources can generate significant economic rent to the owners. In the past, governments have usually claimed ownership of hydroelectric resources and passed on the rents to their state-owned utilities, which have used them to...
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Concerns about global warming and the availability of clean renewable sources of energy are increasing. However, as private companies take over state power utilities, the demand for profit has stifled those concerns. Currently the private sector is building over 40 megawatts of fossil-fuel...
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Oil and energy markets have experienced dramatic changes over the past two decades-steep price increases in the 1970s and 1980s followed by a decrease in 1986 and large declines in demand in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. But despite considerable uncertainty about future...
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