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Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how...
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The global energy transition from fossil to low-carbon energy challenges the future of the Norwegian petroleum sector … for gas to the EU. What energy policies can assist the transition into a low-carbon society? We explore three investment … scenarios for the Norwegian offshore energy sector from 2020 to 2070: 1) Business as usual, 2) Increasing cash-flow by …
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unemployment, poverty, and inequality in South Africa, there are concerns that a rapid transition to a low-carbon energy system … Project, and analyses the impacts on the energy system and the economy of an increase in ambition, in order to shed light on …
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This study explores the extent to which regional integration can be a viable tool in driving energy sustainability in … West African Power Pool (WAPP). Using three measures of energy sustainability, namely: energy security, energy equity, and … energy sustainability. The findings from the study reveal, inter alia, that there are prospects and benefits for energy …
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This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … desired levels according to the prescription of the SDG of per water, energy and food capita consumption is reached by each … investment have a positive accelerating effect on food convergence as well as on energy convergence. …
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The point of departure for the study of the impact of energy and environmental policies is the neoclassical theory of … independent of energy and environmental policies. However, these policies affect capital accumulation and rates of productivity … growth that determine the intermediate-run trends that are important for policy evaluation. Heterogeneity of different energy …
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MIND is a hybrid model incorporating several energy related sectors in an endogenous growth model of the world economy …. This model structure allows a better understanding of the linkages between the energy sectors and the macro … mitigation strategies, e.g. parameters in the macro-economic environment and in the extraction sector. Sector-specific energy …
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In this paper I have used copula functions to forecast the Value-at-Risk (VaR) of an equally weighted portfolio comprising a small cap stock index and a large cap stock index for the oil and gas industry. The following empirical questions have been analyzed: (i) are there nonnormalities in the...
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While the economic literature has yet to establish whether greater electricity consumption leads to faster economic growth, or vice versa, it is widely accepted that the better provision of electricity can enable pro-poor growth. Because electricity consumption is expected to grow in emerging...
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Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower … targets. Bridging the modeling gaps between climate, energy, and economics, and effectively transforming climate changes into …. Such a framework is adopted here to assess energy production and adaptation costs for four climate change scenarios over …
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