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productivity in Pakistan. The analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in the duration of outages on average leads to a 0 …
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The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … productivity, and the wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These strategies aim to address …
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The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China … tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with … promotion policies. Final goods tariffs as well as input tariffs are negatively associated with firm-level productivity. However …
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of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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One of the contentious issues in electricity reform is whether there are significant gains from restructuring systems that are moderately well run. South Africa's electricity system is a case in point. The sector's state-owned utility, Eskom, has been generating some of the lowest-priced...
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Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are...
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- range of indicators, such as output, employment, productivity, efficiency, quality, coverage, and prices, offering a fuller … changes in ownership generate significant improvements in labor productivity, efficiency, and product and service quality, and …
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The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and telecommunications...
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In Addis Ababa, an increasing block tariff has been used to calculate households' monthly bills for electricity and water services. This study estimates the magnitudes of the combined water and electricity subsidies received by households with private connections to the electricity grid and...
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This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher returns and lowering entry costs in sectors with...
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