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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894601
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Modelling water resource allocation: a case study on agriculture versus hydropower production
Bielsa, Jorge; Duarte, Rosa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In this paper we propose an economic model for the optimum allocation of water within a given area with the following features. First, the introduction of the institutional, geographical and time scheme under which the water rights are granted. Secondly, the establishment of a modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650672
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Investment timing and optimal capacity choice for small hydropower projects
Bøckman, Thor; Fleten, Stein-Erik; Juliussen, Erik; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper presents a method for assessing small hydropower projects that are subject to uncertain electricity prices … of a small hydropower plant is dealt with using a spreadsheet model that performs a technical simulation of the …. The method is illustrated on three different Norwegian small hydropower projects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620027
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Finding the Optimal Way of Electricity Production in Pakistan
Zeshan, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
hydropower plants that are beneficial for two reasons. First, it would produce clean power in the country. Second, cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108132
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Análisis del Gasto Público Social en el Presupuesto Nacional 2010
Cogliandro, Gisell; Ariel, Melamud - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The National Budget has a key role as an instrument of funds allocation for different social priorities and resources redistribution with localized impact in the provinces. The main objective of Social Public Expenditure (GPS) is to promote the access of most vulnerable social groups to quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526958
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Социальный контроль: сущность и роль в современном обществе
Kuznetsova, E.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article is about the specifics of social control as a social phenomenon. The author analyzes as social control historically was changing, as approaches to its definition, its types, methods, the system of sanctions were changing also. Particular attention is paid to identifying the sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110897
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Recasting the Power Politics of Debt: Structural Power, Hegemonic Stabilisers and Change
Antoniades, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The 2007/8 financial crisis exposed and exacerbated the debt pathologies of the ‘West’. The paper examines whether the new global debt relations that have been generated by this crisis have transformed global power politics, changing the way in which the ‘global South’ and the ‘global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259196
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Preliminary Criteria Reduction for the Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process Method
Gawlik, Remigiusz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a method for multi – criteria decision making. It consists principally of three levels – Main Goal, Criteria and Alternatives. The Main Goal level can be extended into forces and actors influencing the decision making process, the Criteria level can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260039
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Geopolitics vs. Globalization in the Balkans: The New Rivalries in the Energy and Transport Sectors
Klimov, Blagoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The research focuses on how present Balkan political elites declare that they would adhere to the values of integrating and globalizing Europe in their Balkan policy, while de facto employing the ‘arsenal’ of geopolitical egoistic planning. I also argue that narrow geopolitical planning in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836970
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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Bulgaria and Romania’s Accession- Geo-economic and Geopolitical Implications for the Balkans
Klimov, Blagoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The project’s aim is to look beyond the journalistic flash stories and the repetitive high pathos analysis of EU's Balkan Enlargement and explore in depth the geopolitical implications of such an important development. In other words, this thesis looks at two major questions, and namely, what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619321