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Energiearmut : Stand der Forschung, nationale Programme und regionale Modellprojekte in Deutschland, Österreich und Großbritannien
Kopatz, Michael; Spitzer, Markus; Christanell, Anja - 2010
Energiearmut wird durch steigende Energiepreise und die gleichzeitig steigende Armut auch in der europäischen Union ein … über den Stand der Forschung zu Energiearmut sowie der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Diskussion in Deutschland … einkommensschwache Menschen eingegangen. In Folge werden kurz nationale Strategien zur Armutsbekämpfung in Großbritannien und Deutschland …
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Making Energy Efficiency Pro-Poor : Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design
Never, Babette - 2014
This paper reviews the current state of behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as empirical examples, this paper develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy...
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Assessing the Effects of a Large Temporary Energy Savings Program : Evidence from a Developing Country
Huse, Cristian; Lucinda, Claudio; Cardoso, Andre - 2022
We examine the effects of a large temporary energy-savings program on the valuation of energy efficiency by Brazilian households, as well as its counterfactual energy savings. Using a representative sample of Brazilian households, we specify and estimate a structural model of appliance choice...
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Vulnerable households and fuel poverty : measuring the efficiency of policy targeting in Queensland
Simshauser, Paul - In: Energy economics 101 (2021), pp. 1-17
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The elephant in the energy room : establishing the nexus between housing poverty and fuel poverty
Burlinson, Andrew; Giulietti, Monica; Battisti, Giuliana - In: Energy economics 72 (2018), pp. 135-144
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Energiearmut als Querschnitts-Herausforderung - Impulse für eine politische Strategie
Müller, Klaus; Bruhn, Claudia - 2013
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Research note: The effect of different indexation scenarios on child poverty in the UK
De Agostini, Paola; Tasseva, Iva - 2015
Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between...
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Public service spending : efficiency and distributional i mpact ; lessons from Asia
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Domingo, Gabriel Angelo - 2015
Efficiency and equity are cornerstone concepts in rational service delivery in the public sector. This paper benchmarks efficiency and equity in public spending on health, education and social protection in a broad group of Asian Development Bank (ADB) member economies with varying levels of...
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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting
De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014
We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...
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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty : the success of public works programs in reducing poverty depends on their design and implementa...
Zimmermann, Laura - 2014
Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with economic shocks in the short term. But success depends on a scheme's design and implementation. Key design factors are: properly identifying the target population; selecting...
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