of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher … these two dimensions, followed by services and agriculture. The expansion of electricity infrastructure explains about 17 …

This study assesses the accuracy of time-series econometric methods in forecasting electricity demand in developing … simple heuristic models, which assume that electricity demand grows at an exogenous rate or is proportional to real gross …

people use electricity. As expected, users are disproportionately urban and rich. In communities with access to electricity … electricity vary in availability, with six countries allowing 30 kilowatt-hours or less of electricity usage a month at low prices … needed for electricity at the subsistence and other levels. Affordability varied across countries, with grid electricity even …

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

among power systems. Where such institutional arrangements do not exist, there still can be scope for voluntary electricity … quasi-markets for trading excess electricity through the kind of mechanism described here helps achieve sustainable … cooperation in mutually beneficial electricity sharing …

dependency on hydropower for electricity. Given highly volatile international energy prices and expected global warming, it is … becoming increasingly important to manage the demand for electricity. However, the country has long been faced with a … significant problem of electricity metering. About one-third of total energy is lost for technical and nontechnical reasons. This …

Accelerating development in Sub-Saharan Africa will require massive expansion of access to electricity -- currently …

The Government of Montenegro is preparing an electricity tariff reform due to recent developments in the national and … regional electricity markets. Electricity tariffs for residential consumers in Montenegro are likely to gradually increase by … and vulnerable households in particular. Higher electricity prices could also significantly increase the proportion of …