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Energy and Emissions : Local and Global Effects of the Rise of China and India
Shalizi, Zmarak - 2016
India.Part 2 compares two business as usual scenarios with a set of alternate scenarios based on policy interventions on the … results suggest that energy externalities are likely to worsen significantly if there is no shift in China's and India …'s energy strategies. High energy demand from China and India could constrain some developing countries' growth through higher …
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Distributional Implications of Climate Change in India
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2017
increases over the next three decades will affect household-level welfare in India. The authors predict a substantial fall in … the non-poor, since they own the lion's share of agricultural land. The results suggest that poverty in India will be …
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Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy : Winners and Losers
Mani, Muthukumara - 2018
China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha
Christian, Paul - 2018
India and the staggered rollout of a rural livelihoods intervention. Comparisons from household surveys across communities …
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Estimating Global Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Projects : Applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
Iimi, Atsushi - 2016
. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …
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Aquatic Salinization and Mangrove Species in a Changing Climate : Impact in the Indian Sundarbans
Mukhopadhyay, Anirban - 2018
This paper contributes to understanding the physical and economic effects of salinity diffusion and planning for appropriate adaptation for managing the Sundarbans in a changing climate, with a focus on the West Bengal portion of the tidal-wetland forest delta. A five-step analysis, using...
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Infrastructure Policy : Basic Design Options
Klein, Michael U. - 2012
The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Rana, Anshul - 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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Lessons from Power Sector Reforms : The Case of Morocco
Usman, Zainab - 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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Vulnerabilities of Networked Energy Infrastructure : A Primer
Schweikert, Amy Elizabeth - 2019
Considerable work has been done to understand and improve the resilience of individual infrastructure components. However, systems of components, or even systems of systems, are far less well understood. Cascade effects, where the loss of one infrastructure affects others, is a major source of...
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