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Green Subsidies and the WTO
Charnovitz, Steve - 2017
This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972628
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What Drives the Global"Land Rush"?
Arezki, Rabah - 2017
The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush" . Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975668
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840290
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Charting the Diffusion of Power Sector Reforms Across the Developing World
Foster, Vivien - 2019
world over 25 years, this paper seeks to improve understanding of the uptake, diffusion, packaging, and sequencing of power … follow through with reform plans that were officially announced. Overall, power sector reform in the developing world lags … far behind what was achieved in the developed world during the same time period. Yet, even in the developed world, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900698
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Taking Stock of Economic Regulation of Power Utilities in the Developing World : A Literature Review
Rodriguez Pardina, Martin A. - 2019
uptake of regulation, implementation has proved to be challenging in the developing world. Regulators were seldom as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891606
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Taking Stock of the Political Economy of Power Sector Reforms in Developing Countries : A Literature Review
Lee, Alan David - 2019
The power sector reform experiences of developing countries vary greatly. To help explain this from a political economy perspective, this paper reviews several dozen statistical analyses, multi-country case studies, and development practice publications. The frame of reference is the model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898364
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864997
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How Much Would China Gain from Power Sector Reforms? An Analysis Using Times and CGE Models
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2019
Many countries have undertaken market-oriented reforms of the power sector over the past four decades. However, the literature has not investigated whether the reforms have contributed to economic development. This study aims to assess the potential macroeconomic impacts of an element of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865471
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865480
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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of the Philippines
Bacon, Robert - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870633