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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa

Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018

economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these …

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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia

Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …

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Meeting the sustainable development goal for electricity access : using a multi-scenario approach to understand the cost drivers of power infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : bey...

Nicolas, Claire; Samson, Benjamin; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019

This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 …

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Lessons from power sector reforms : the case of Morocco

Usman, Zainab; Amegroud, Tayeb - Weltbank - 2019

Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation for generation capacity expansion and electricity distribution, while retaining a strong, state-owned and vertically-integrated national power utility operating as a single...

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Learning from power sector reform : the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Rana, Anshul; Khanna, Ashish - 2020

The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies, with prices set well below the costs of supply. These subsidies have taken a variety of forms: explicit subsidies in the government budget, implicit subsidies in the...

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Learning from power sector reform experiences : the case of Vietnam

Lee, Alan David; Gerner, Franz - 2020

Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...

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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton A. - 2019

independent regulation, partial privatization of the generation company (KenGen), and establishment of complementary entities …

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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Uganda

Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton A. - 2019

Uganda's power sector structure is among the most sophisticated in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Uganda is one of only a …

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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Pakistan

Bacon, Robert W. - 2019

Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power producer program in 1994, the full unbundling of the national vertically integrated power and water utility, the Water and Power Development Authority, and the establishment of a...

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Learning from power sector reform : the case of the Philippines

Bacon, Robert W. - 2019

The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage of supply in the late 1980s and the Asian Financial crisis of 1997, which made the dollar-denominated debt of the National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric...

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