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Energy efficiency improvements in low income housing are increasingly used as a policy instrument to alleviate poverty …
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Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to …
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This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen...
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relationship of subjective well-being and several measures of fuel poverty. We study fuel poverty and its effects on life … satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … fuel poverty and subjective well-being. The effects are comparable in magnitude to those of other important factors of life …
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the emergence of fuel poverty in Italy in the period from 1998 to 2011. The paper examines the eligibility criteria for … with the population actually living in fuel poverty. A simulation exercise, using the hypothetical scenario most likely to … state energy benefits has little impact on fuel poverty …
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Choice defaults are an increasingly popular public policy tool. Yet there is little knowledge of the distributional consequences of such nudges for different groups in society. We report results from an elicitation study in the residential electricity market in Switzerland in which we contrast...
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had in specific contexts presents an opportunity to utilize them as tools for tackling a prevalent type of poverty at the … EU level: energy poverty. Recent contributions to the literature highlight the role of inefficient energy behavior as a … significant driver of this particular type of poverty, which is characterized by an inability to afford the basic energy services …
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adversely affect the welfare of most Congolese households. To date, research has not yet examined the poverty and distributional …-added tax leads to a worsening of the food poverty headcount by approximately 1.2 percentage points …
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Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...
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