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energy received little investment. The rate of electrification is still very low, triggering the use of other sources of … energy derived from firewood in rural areas. In addition, Burkina Faso has experienced land degradation in the North as a …
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(including water, energy, food) coupled with the adverse impacts of variability and climate change threaten the population and … the energy sector, the country is currently in an undesirable state, with very limited modern energy services (2% of the … biomass (77% of primary energy consumption). However, the country is fortunate to have a tremendous amount of energy resources …
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This review report involves the analysis and synthesis of literatures on climate change, land use, energy, livelihoods … investments in Nigeria. Specifically, this report provides a systematic literature review on: 1) situation and trends in energy … and flooding across the country. The literature further revealed inadequate energy supply, distribution and low per capita …
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has adopted new policies (infrastructure investments, liberalization of the groundnut sector and opening of the energy … to 2015. Future economic growth in Senegal can be significantly shaped by the energy sector regarding the recent oil and …
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Nile and its tributaries, seasonal streams, underground water and surface water. Sources of energy are: biomass …; electricity (hydro and fossil fuels) and petroleum products, accounting for about 78,8% and 14%, respectively, of the total energy … balance. Sudan has significant renewable energy resources. Particularly solar energy is well distributed all over the country …
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Kuwait. It highlights impacts on non-energy sectors and ‘second-best effects’ to draw potentially-applicable lessons for the …-industrialization effect. Booms expand mainly nontraded oligopolies’ markup along with the energy sector and the SWFs, and raise rent … energy, as well as in the private non-energy, sectors; these oligopolies capture terms of trade shocks’ rents that detract …
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Energy was one of the keys to the remarkable increase in English GDP between 1650 and 1700. Increased per head physical … activity and basal metabolic rate led to increased energy consumption. In response, subsistence wages, productivity, wages and … associated with higher energy consumption. Non-agricultural wages began to differ from agricultural wages. British economic …
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regimes. Countries that maintain fixed price regimes-notably net energy exporters-tend to have large fuel subsidies. When such …
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regressions, controlling for macroeconomic factors such as economic development, GDP growth, urbanisation, as well as the energy …
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applied modules they use for representing sectoral energy and emission characteristics and dynamics. The purpose is to provide … technical insight into recent advances in the modelling of current and future energy and abatement technologies and how they can … represent likely energy system transitions in the decades to come, modern CGE tools have learned from bottom-up studies. Three …
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