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Residential Electricity Subsidies in Pakistan : Targeting, Welfare Impacts, and Options for Reform
World Bank Group - 2017
nature, drawing on specially commissioned analysis of survey and administrative data on household electricity consumption, as … well as a qualitative assessment of household and service provider attitudes and experiences. Based on the findings of this … relationship between electricity consumption and welfare using household survey and electricity company microdata. Chapter III …
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Fueling Kyrgyzstan's Transition to Clean Household Heating Solutions
World Bank Group - 2020
areas, over 80 percent of households resort to individual heating solutions. Every second household uses a traditional coal … significant benefits for household comfort, public health and air pollution which is an increasing problem in urban areas in the …
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Is Indonesia Ready to Serve? : An Analysis of Indonesia's Primary Health Care Supply-Side Readiness
World Bank Group - 2018
Health financing in Indonesia is marked by low public health expenditures (PHE), high out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures … and a complex and fragmented intergovernmental fiscal transfer system. Indonesia has a mixed model of public … health care providers in Indonesia. The report analyzes primary health care supply-side readiness across public and private …
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Indonesia Health Financing System Assessment : Spend More, Right and Better
World Bank Group - 2016
This report assesses Indonesia's health financing system. As an intrinsic and necessary element of universal health …
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Energizing Africa : Achievements and Lessons from the Africa Renewable Energy and Access Program Phase I
World Bank Group - 2015
Access to energy and economic development go hand in hand. Improving electricity supply and distribution boosts economic growth, creates jobs, and expands the reach of educational and health services. It can also empower women, providing income-generating opportunities and enabling them to spend...
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Afghanistan Renewable Energy Development Issues and Options
World Bank Group - 2018
Afghanistan is facing many economic and political challenges as it deals with spreading insurgency, declining economic growth, and continuing poverty. The government is working on a number of fronts to stimulate economic activity through its own initiatives and in partnership with International...
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Improving the Investment Climate for Renewable Energy : Through Benefit Sharing, Risk Management, and Local Community Engagement
World Bank Group - 2019
The report, a joint effort between the World Bank's Social Development Global Practice and International Finance Corporation (IFC) advisory services, is based on the idea that local engagement, for example, through benefit sharing, is an important way for better risk management and creating a...
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China : 40-Year Experience in Renewable Energy Development; Policies, Achievements, and Lessons Learned
World Bank Group - 2021
China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its predominantly rural population before the economic boom that followed the open door policy, by improving energy supply to the economy as the country industrialized and urbanized...
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Renewing with Growth
World Bank Group - 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean suffered the largest death toll from Covid?19 across developing regions and the sharpest decline in economic activity. With fewer school days and lower employment rates, with higher public debt and more firms under stress, the effects could be long?lasting. The...
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Thailand : Clean Energy for Green Low-Carbon Growth
World Bank Group - 2011
Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security...
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