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Analysis of household expenditure surveys since 2008 in 22 Sub-Saharan African countries shows that one-third of all …, lack of affordability is the greatest barrier to household connection. Lifeline rates enabling the poor to use grid … of detailed information on residential schedules enabled calculation of the percentage of total household expenditures …
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The analysis of household energy consumption patterns is critical for evaluating public mechanisms, such as subsidies … role played by different household characteristics. Using microdata from the Mexican Income Expenditure Surveys, the paper … income deciles and energy consumption and some household characteristics -- pointing to differentiated mechanisms for …
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2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use …, including that of modern energy, and estimates the household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an …) and modern (electricity and kerosene) sources improves household consumption and income, the return on modern sources is …
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analysis is multi-disciplinary in nature, drawing on national household survey data, electric company data on household … electricity consumption, a welfare database, and a specially commissioned qualitative assessment of household and service provider …
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household skill level and the revenue recycling scenario …
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This paper investigates the effect of carbon or gasoline taxes on commuting-related CO2 emissions in an urban context. To assess the impact of public transport on the efficiency of the tax, the paper investigates two exogenous scenarios using a dynamic urban model (NEDUM-2D) calibrated for the...
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The international aviation and maritime sectors today enjoy relatively favorable tax treatment, as their fuels are not taxed and the sectors are not subject to any value-added tax or turnover tax. Nor are these fuel uses subject to any global measures to reduce their associated CO2 emissions,...
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A carbon tax is an efficient economic instrument to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning. Its impacts on production of renewable energy depend on how it is designed -- particularly in the context of the penetration of biofuels into the energy supply mix for road...
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This paper provides a first analysis of optimal offset policies by a "policy bloc" of fossil fuel importers implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc uses either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, jointly...
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This paper develops a global model of climate policy, focusing on the choice between tax and cap-and-trade solutions. The analysis assumes that the world can be split into two regions, with two fuels that both lead to carbon emissions. Region A consumes all fuels, and is responsible for defining...
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