This Selected Issues paper provides an overview of past growth performance and an assessment of the outlook for growth in Timor-Leste. It identifies impediments to growth and discusses policies that would contribute to the accelerated rates of growth needed to reduce poverty and unemployment and...

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Nigeria highlights the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). NEEDS gives special support to agriculture, industry, small and medium-scale enterprises, and oil and gas. Under the plan, the government will seek long-term capital...

Purpose: This work presents a general model in mixed integer programming that integrates the design of the territory and distribution route planning, seeking to minimize the total distance covered by the vehicle in each territory. Design/methodology/approach: In this work, a mathematical...

This paper considers a location-routing problem in a supply-chain network with a set of producer–distributors that produce a single commodity and distribute it to a set of customers. The production capacity of each producer–distributor varies randomly due to a variety of possible...

Power distribution network analysis is taken into account. Based on correlation coefficient authors establish methodology of mathematical analysis useful in finding substations bear responsibility for power stoppage. Also methodology of risk assessment will be carried out.

Reliability of distribution network based on Correlation Critical Clusters is taken into account. Method allows to assess risk of power stoppage in analysed network. Therefore, it allows to estimate the reliability of analysed distribution network. Presented analysis is carried out on...

Electricity generation using renewable energy generation technologies is one of the most practical alternatives for network planners in order to achieve national and international Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. Renewable Distributed Generation (DG) based Hybrid Energy System...