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Power sector development in Myanmar
Nam, Kee-yung; Cham, Maria Rowena; Halili, Paulo Rodelio - 2015
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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Improving transport and energy infrastructure investment in Poland
Goujard, Antoine - 2016
Poland has significantly upgraded its infrastructure network over the past decade. However, bottlenecks still weigh on productivity growth and environmental and health outcomes. The EU 2014-20 programming period is an opportunity to improve the management of infrastructure investment. In the...
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10 years after : long-term adoption of electricity in rural Rwanda
Masselus, Lise; Ankel-Peters, Jörg; Gonzalez Sutil, Gabriel - 2024
Extending the power grid into hitherto unconnected areas is high on the policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, connection rates and electricity consumption remain low in grid connected areas, at least in the short and medium run. This paper provides a long-term follow-up on an evaluation of a...
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Power Sector Development in Myanmar
Nam, Kee-yung - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009415
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The Future Expansion of HVDC Power Transmission in Brazil : A Scenario-Based Economic Evaluation
Köhnke Mendonça, Christian - 2016
) transmission lines against the background of a changing electricity sector in Brazil. On account of the spatial mismatch between …-distance transmission capacity is postulated. Due to the low losses incurred, HVDC technology is particularly suitable for this. For the … energy sources (primarily wind and solar power). Linear optimization is used to determine the optimal HVDC transmission lines …
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G7 Pensions : ESG, SDGs, Green Growth and the Road to Camp David
Firzli, M. Nicolas J. - 2020
The ‘COVID Crisis' has accelerated the mainstreaming of SDG-driven investment, with pension board members (trustees) playing an increasingly active role across all asset classes, from Sacramento to Sydney: governments (debt) and CEOs (equity) are having to commit more seriously to pressing...
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6th World Pensions Forum held in London : Greening, Governance and Asset Ownership
Weeks, David - 2019
The sixth annual World Pensions Forum was held on 23-24 February 2017 at the Queen's House in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.Over 120 representatives attended: from pension and sovereign funds, central banks and government agencies including financial regulators. Topics discussed included...
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Financing of energy efficiency in public goods: the case of street lighting systems in Indonesia
Al Irsyad, Muhammad Indra; Anggono, Tri; Nepal, Rabindra; … - 2020
Energy demand growth in Southeast Asian countries is predicted to be the highest in the world, with Indonesia having the highest urbanization rate. Along with growing urban areas, public infrastructures, such as streetlights, are also expanding. Unfortunately, energy conservation measures in...
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Empirische Analysen der Projektfinanzierung 2000-2012 im Sektor Erneuerbare Energie (Empirical Analyses in Project Finance 2000-2012 in the Renewable Energy Sector)
Pfarl, Iris - 2015
German Abstract: Die Projektfinanzierung ist eine bewährte Finanzierungsform für Großprojekte im Sektor Erneuerbare Energie. Selbst in den Krisenjahren ab 2007 zeigen sich in der aggregierten Betrachtung kontinuierliche Zuwächse im Volumen von projektfinanzierten Finanzierungstransaktionen....
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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation
Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition. These new entrants are twice as likely to create...
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