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Poverty and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Price Reforms in Montenegro

Silva, Patricia; Klytchnikova, Irina; Radevic, Dragana - 2012

The Government of Montenegro is preparing an electricity tariff reform due to recent developments in the national and regional electricity markets. Electricity tariffs for residential consumers in Montenegro are likely to gradually increase by anywhere from 40 to over 100 percent. This...

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Measuring Welfare Gains from Better Quality Infrastructure

Klytchnikova, Irina; Lokshin, Michael - 2012

Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price, coverage, or quality of the services provided. The benefits of improved service quality-while significant-are often overlooked because they are difficult to quantify. This paper...

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Trade Reforms, Farm Productivity, and Poverty in Bangladesh

Klytchnikova, Irina; Diop, Ndiame - 2012

This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice...

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Tourism Sector in Panama : Regional Economic Impacts and the Potential to Benefit the Poor

Klytchnikova, Irina; Dorosh, Paul - 2013

the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by … growth and poverty at the regional (province) level in Panama using a Social Accounting Matrix model. As revealed by this … benefits to the poor. But tourism's poverty benefits are neither automatic nor ubiquitous. They depend on where and how supply …

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