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Modern infrastructure, particularly electricity, is critical to economic development. South Asia, with inefficient and … bankrupt state-owned vertically integrated electricity supply industries, encouraged private generation investment to address … shortages selling power to largely unreformed state electricity boards, exacerbating financial distress. Reforming the SEBs is …
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The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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supply for cooling purposes, for example, will negatively affect the electricity generation in power plants. In this paper we … on individual power plant sites or the overall economy but also on electricity exchanges between countries …
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infrastructure projects. Several important factors are increasing its role, these are - strained public finances, interest from … projects. Since Kazakhstan is a large country with vast infrastructure needs, the development of P3 is matter of time, hence is …
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utilities difficult. -- electricity sector ; state-owned utility ; energy losses ; CFE ; LyFC …
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Between late 2012 and 2016, Ghana experienced a severe electricity crisis called Dumsor. The crisis triggered a severe … power rationing program resulting in heavy load shedding throughout the country. Such electricity crises often happen in … previously electricity-intensive firms drove this effect. In more detail, electricity-intensive firms owning a generator before …
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In this study, we investigate empirically the relationship between telephone penetration and economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equations that endogenizes economic growth and telecom penetration. We find that the traditional economic factors...
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This paper provides an in-depth regional analysis of the rural nonfarm sector (RNFE) in Kyrgyzstan based on three household budget surveys for 2003, 2005 and 2006. The main finding is that the RNFE had predominantly “push” nature in spite of all reforms in the agricultural sector. Regression...
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infrastructure is significant. Access to piped water increases the probability of adoption of modern sanitation and washing … include the lack of necessary infrastructure (piped water and centralized sewerage). …
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Many of today's researchers of the Caucasus focus in particular on analyzing ways to achieve peaceful settlement of the conflicts in the Caucasus, while only a few publications are devoted to the state of economic interrelations in the region and their development prospects. The goal of the book...
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