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Current and Forthcoming Issues in the South African Electricity Sector
Kessides, Ioannis - 2016
One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in point. The sector's state-owned utility, Eskom, has been generating some of the lowest-priced...
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Forecasting Investment Needs in South Africa's Electricity and Telecommunications Sectors
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016
The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and telecommunications...
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Learning from Power Sector Reform Experiences : The Case of Vietnam
Lee, Alan David - 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 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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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
This paper studies the governance structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an aggregate measure of corporate governance and six...
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The Impact of Privatization on the Performance of the Infrastructure Sector : The Case of Electricity Distribution in Latin American Countries
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2016
The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American … the first systemic analysis of the impact of privatization on the distribution of the electricity sector. Second, it … picture of the effects of privatization on consumers. Fourth, this research covers a longer period of time, and evaluates …
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Electricity Access and Structural Transformation : Evidence from Brazil's Electrification
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2020
This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher returns and lowering entry costs in sectors with...
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Falling Short : A Global Survey of Electricity Tariff Design
Foster, Vivien - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs according to a variety of important dimensions, notably...
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Cost Recovery and Financial Viability of the Power Sector in Developing Countries : Insights from 15 Case Studies
Huenteler, Joern Torsten - 2020
This paper analyzes power utilities in 15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost recovery in the power sector and the impacts of these reforms on metrics of sector performance. The analysis finds that electricity...
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The Impact of Electricity Shortages on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Pakistan
Grainger, Corbett Alden - 2017
Power shortages present a significant challenge to manufacturers, who rely on power as a key input to production. In Pakistan, power shortages are commonplace, but empirical evidence on the impact of shortages is still lacking. Using a survey of 4,500 manufacturing firms for the year 2010-11,...
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