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The role of cryptoassets as legal tender: the example of El Salvador
Gorjón Rivas, Sergio
Artículo de revista ; On 7 September 2021, El Salvador became the first jurisdiction to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This initiative has raised as much enthusiasm as it has scepticism and potentially opens the door for other countries to follow suit. The initiative is underpinned by a law...
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Wholesale financial markets and digital currencies: making headway in the tokenisation of central bank money
Gorjón Rivas, Sergio
Artículo de revista ; The interest taken by central banks, and by society at large, in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has grown notably in recent years. Although the greatest efforts have focused on studying and experimenting on a new class of monetary liability with universal access...
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India's cement industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's cement sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline … that technical progress in India's cement sector has been biased towards the use of energy and capital, while it has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435632
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India's pulp and paper industry: Productivity and energy efficiency
Schumacher, Katja - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's pulp and paper sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … technical progress in India's pulp and paper sector has been biased towards the use of energy and material, while it has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435633
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India's iron and steel industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's iron and steel sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … progress in India's iron and steel sector has been biased towards the use of energy and material, while it has been capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435634
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India's Fertilizer Industry: Productivity and Energy Efficiency
Schumacher, K.; Sathaye, J. - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's fertilizer sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … reveals that technical progress in India's fertilizer sector has been biased towards the use of energy, while it has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435719
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Development Of Regional Climate Mitigation Baseline For A DominantAgro-Ecological Zone Of Karnataka, India
Sudha, P.; Shubhashree, D.; Khan, H.; Hedge, G.T.; … - 2009
Setting a baseline for carbon stock changes in forest andland use sector mitigation projects is an essential step for assessingadditionality of the project. There are two approaches for settingbaselines namely, project-specific and regional baseline. This paperpresents the methodology adopted...
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Multiproject baselines for evaluation of electric power projects
Sathaye, Jayant; Murtishaw, Scott; Price, Lynn; … - 2008
power grids in eastern India and South Africa. We use hypothetical, but realistic, climate change projects in each country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436192
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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil
Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008
electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …
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Impact of Large Scale Energy Efficiency Programs On Consumer Tariffs and Utility Finances in India
Abhyankar, Nikit; Phadke, Amol - 2011
Large-scale EE programs would modestly increase tariffs but reduce consumers' electricity bills significantly. However, the primary benefit of EE programs is a significant reduction in power shortages, which might make these programs politically acceptable even if tariffs increase. To increase...
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