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The transport sector offers limited options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared with other sectors, such as … emissions through fuel substitution or transportation service demand reduction, this study estimates own- and cross …-price elasticities of various fuels used for transportation. The analysis shows, like many previous studies, that an increase in fuel …
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Vietnam's transport sector plays an important role in its socioeconomic development. Passenger transport helps meets … daily needs and contributes significantly to tourist service development while freight transport helps meet the country …'s demand for delivery of raw materials and of semi-finished products to production facilities and for transport of finished …
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Slovakia's transport sector has not suffered from the dramatic reductions in demand and neglect of its infrastructure … that have afflicted many of its neighbors. However, current under-maintenance is eating away at the stock of transport … commercializing its transport operations has not progressed far enough to put them in a strong position to confront the pressures they …
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This report sets forth details of a financial recovery plan designed to help Vietnam Electricity (EVN), and the Vietnamese power sector more generally, to address a series of complex and interconnected challenges over the next 3 to 10 years. These challenges are operational and institutional as...
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The power sector of Armenia achieved remarkable results through first generation policy, legal, regulatory, and institutional reforms implemented from 1991-2003, the first decade of independence. The sector achieved financial sustainability with tariffs that assured recovery of reasonable...
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Ghana has been remarkably successful in extending its national grid into the rural areas. According to its Ministry of Power, about 83.4 percent of communities with more than 500 people have access to grid electricity. The main remaining frontier is to bring electricity to communities living on...
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This report provides the first historic overview of power system development focused on its evolution from distributed systems to centralized grid systems. It tracks the early development of power systems in several (now) middle- and high-income economies to inform the current drive to deploy...
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Getting to Gender Equality in Electricity Infrastructure: Lessons from Electricity Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Projects examines the social and gender footprint of large-scale electricity generation, transmission, and distribution projects to establish a foundation on which...
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