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This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …
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labeled as "jobless growth." For the first time for Morocco, this paper uses quarterly panel data to investigate the question …
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estimation of a panel-data vector autoregressive model over 1975-2011. Growth fluctuations, initially associated with demand …
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This paper seeks to assess the extent to which a country's overall level of development and that of its financial sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these effects in a 1990-2007 dataset on the power sector in 37...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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regression model. Based on a panel data set of 137 economies during 1990-2014, the analysis identifies a threshold effect of …
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demonstrates that these bounds are reasonably informative, using the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics where the panel structure …
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