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Fossil Fuel Subsidy and Pricing Policies : Recent Developing Country Experience

Kojima, Masami - 2017

The steep decline in the world oil price in the last quarter of 2014 slashed fuel price subsidies. Several governments responded by announcing that they would remove subsidies for one or more fuels and move to market-based pricing with full cost recovery. Other governments took advantage of low...

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The Role of Policy Driven Incentives to Attract Ppps in Renewable-Based Energy in Developing Countries : A Cross-Country Analysis

Vagliasindi, Maria - 2017

generated by renewable energy based on a panel data analysis for 105 developing countries over a period of 16 years from 1993 to … 2008. It aims to identify the key factors affecting the private investor's decision to enter renewable-based energy … selection analysis. One of the key results of the paper is that the market for renewable-based energy is strongly driven by …

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Firms Operating Under Infrastructure and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries : The Case of Power Generators

Alby, Philippe - 2017

Many developing countries are unable to provide their industrial sector with reliable power and many enterprises have to contend with electricity that is insufficient and of poor quality. Because of these constraints, firms in developing countries opt for self-generation even though it is widely...

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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade

Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020

The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...

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World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy

Smets, Lodewijk - 2017

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds that the quality of policy increases, but at a diminishing rate, with the cumulative number of policy loans. Similar results hold for the cumulative number of conditions...

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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance : Risks and Opportunities

Gelb, Alan - 2017

Sovereign wealth funds represent a large and growing pool of savings. An increasing number of these funds are owned by natural resource?exporting countries and have a variety of objectives, including intergenerational equity and macroeconomic stabilization. Traditionally, these funds have...

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Crisis Preparedness and Debt Management in Low Income Countries : Strengthening Institutions and Policy Frameworks

Weist, Dana - 2017

The magnitude of the public liabilities incurred as a result of the unprecedented government action in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, and the consequences of exiting from the projected high debt scenario, have become a major source of concern about a future sovereign debt crisis....

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Growth Identification and Facilitation : The Role of the State in the Dynamics of Structural Change

Lin, Justin Y. - 2017

Active economic policies by developing countries? governments to promote growth and industrialization have generally been viewed with suspicion by economists, and for good reasons: past experiences show that such policies have too often failed to achieve their stated objectives. But the...

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A Framework for Thinking About Enterprise Formalization Policies in Developing Countries

Kenyon, Thomas - 2016

What policies encourage firms to become formal? The standard approach emphasizes reducing the costs of compliance with government regulation. This is unlikely to be sufficient. Instead we need to understand compliance as a function not only of firm-level costs and benefits but also in terms of...

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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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