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Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ending energy poverty is a key development priority because energy plays an enabling role for human wellbeing and economic activities. Planning electricity access...
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This paper presents the implications that Covid-19 has had on educational systems as a result of the application of social distancing measures imposed on people by the governments of each individual country. The lockdown has accelerated digitalization but has also shown the internal weaknesses...
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impact of the electricity price deregulation in the industry level. We first construct two-stage dynamic game models by … prices which influence the impact of electricity price deregulation. Next, we collect empirical data to estimate the … parameters in the game models, and simulate the influence of electricity deregulation on the two industries in terms of market …
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The traditional dichotomy of paid versus unpaid work has a tendency to marginalise unpaid work when we attempt to conceptualise precariousness, leading to our perception that it involves exposure to the unpredictability of an individual's future. A new theoretical and empirical perspective is...
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a "deregulation shock" is associated with an accumulation of foreign assets unless the production of nontraded goods is … very capital-intensive. We then investigate whether a measure of domestic deregulation does, in fact, help to explain …
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ideology and deregulation. From this crisis a new democratic capitalist system will emerge, though its character is difficult …
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and inflation dynamics in Europe. Specifically, we include in our specification two separate energy markets (oil and … natural gas) and two target macroeconomic variables, measuring inflation expectations and the realized headline inflation. Our … results demonstrate that, during the last year, inflation in the Euro area is more affected from energy price shocks …
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Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
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During a time in which the subject of climate change is deemed high on the list of priorities of many governments, it is important to assess to what extent policies in this field are achieving meaningful results. The link between energy usage and global warming is clear and today in the European...
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How are market conditions affected by a change in fishery regulations? Who benefits and who loses? The paper discusses the price effects of a reform in the Swedish Baltic cod fishery where vessels using active gear were given annual quotas rather than the previously applied quarterly quotas. We...
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