exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up … 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing … construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are …

tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing …' housing and location choices at a distance from various employment subcenters, while accounting at the same time for land …-driven subsidized housing. Designed and calibrated for Cape Town, the model is used to assess the impact of an urban growth boundary and …

. Fundamental to the economic challenge was high and rising energy prices, already heavily subsidized for consumers. With the … energy prices being a key action, fiscal costs mounted. By 2012, subsidies on petroleum products alone were about 2.8 percent …

The recent advances in battery technology and reductions in battery costs have brought battery energy storage systems …

Concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility … CST could indeed become an important renewable energy technology that would be able to provide an alternative to …

This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The …, estimates for aggregate metals and energy differ by an order of magnitude throughout the income spectrum: from a low of 0.2 for …

Total energy expenditures for the Indian population between 1983 and 2012 are estimated to shed light on the debate … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … activity levels. Despite a significant drop in adult physical activity levels, total energy expenditures are flat overall …