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This paper investigates the occupational mobility and job quality of young people in Indonesia and relates this to the …
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rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was …
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This paper uses household panel data from rural Indonesia to examine the impact of road quality on labor supply and …
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population density and its impacts on household outcomes. The analysis uses panel data from Indonesia combined with district …-level demographic data. Historically, Indonesia has adapted to land constraints through a mix of agricultural intensification, expansion … responses. In contemporary Indonesia, the paper finds that human capital determines the effect of increased population density …
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Integration of large-scale variable renewable energy (VRE) generation resources -- wind and solar -- into national grids has been gaining importance as costs of these technologies, especially that of solar, continues to fall rapidly. However, there continues to be a lack of a framework to...
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This paper considers the design and performance of auction mechanisms used to deploy renewable energy in three emerging economies: Brazil, China, and India. The analysis focuses on the countries' experience in various dimensions, including price reductions, bidding dynamics, coordination with...
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Morocco has set an ambitious target of supplying 42 percent of electricity through renewable sources, 14 percent each through hydro, wind, and solar, by 2020. To analyze the economic and environmental implications of implementing this target, this study uses a dynamic computable general...
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This paper investigates the adverse effects of oil price volatility on economic activity and the extent to which countries can hedge against such effects by using renewable energy. By considering the Realized Volatility of oil prices, rather than following the standard approach of considering...
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Transaction costs are major challenge to moving forward toward low-carbon economic growth, as new technologies or policies tend to have higher transaction costs compared with those in the business as usual situation. However, neither a well-developed theoretical foundation nor a consensus...
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This paper presents new global evidence on the key determinants of public-private partnership investment in electricity generated by fossil fuels and 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...
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