Energy Issues and Options for Developing Countries, United Nations

Автор: Vegh Carlos A
Название: Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries
ISBN: 026201890X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262018906
Издательство: MIT Press
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A comprehensive and rigorous text that shows how a basic open economy model can be extended to answer important macroeconomic questions that arise in emerging markets.

This rigorous and comprehensive textbook develops a basic small open economy model and shows how it can be extended to answer many important macroeconomic questions that arise in emerging markets and developing economies, particularly those regarding monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate issues. Eschewing the complex calibrated models on which the field of international finance increasingly relies, the book teaches the reader how to think in terms of simple models and grasp the fundamentals of open economy macroeconomics.

After analyzing the standard intertemporal small open economy model, the book introduces frictions such as imperfect capital markets, intertemporal distortions, and nontradable goods, into the basic model in order to shed light on the economy's response to different shocks. The book then introduces money into the model to analyze the real effects of monetary and exchange rate policy. It then applies these theoretical tools to a variety of important macroeconomic issues relevant to developing countries (and, in a world of continuing financial crisis, to industrial countries as well), including the use of a nominal interest rate as a main policy instrument, the relative merits of flexible and predetermined exchange rate regimes, and the targeting of "real anchors." Finally, the book analyzes in detail specific topics such as inflation stabilization, "dollarization," balance of payments crises, and, inspired by recent events, financial crises. Each chapter includes boxes with relevant empirical evidence and ends with exercises. The book is suitable for use in graduate courses in development economics, international finance, and macroeconomics.

Автор: Mahul Olivier, Stutley Charles J.
Название: Government Support to Agricultural Insurance: Challenges and Options for Developing Countries
ISBN: 0821382179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821382172
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Governments in developing countries have been increasingly involved in the support of agricultural (crop and livestock) insurance programs in recent years. In their attempts to design and implement agricultural insurance, they have sought technical and financial assistance from the international community and particularly from the World Bank. One of the recurrent requests from governments regards international experience with agricultural insurance, not only in developed countries, where in some cases agricultural insurance has been offered for more than a century, but also in middleand low-income countries. Governments are particularly interested in the technical, operational, financial, and institutional aspects of public support to agricultural insurance. 'Government Support to Agricultural Insurance' informs public and private decision makers involved in agricultural insurance about recent developments, with a particular focus on middle- and low-income countries. It presents an updated picture of the spectrum of institutional frameworks and experiences with agricultural insurance, ranging from countries in which the public sector provides no support to those in which governments heavily subsidize agricultural insurance. This analysis is based on a survey conducted by the World Bank's agricultural insurance team in 2008 in 65 developed and developing countries. Drawing on the survey results, the book identifies some key roles governments can play to support the development of sustainable, affordable, and cost-effective agricultural insurance programs.

Автор: Elizondo Azuela Gabriela, Barroso Luiz Augusto, Azuela Gabriela Elizondo
Название: Design and Performance of Policy Instruments to Promote the Development of Renewable Energy: Emerging Experience in Selected Developing Countries
ISBN: 0821396021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821396025
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Renewable energy plays an important role in contributing to the transition toward low-carbon development growth, in enhancing technology diversification and hedging against fuel price volatility, in strengthening economic growth, and in facilitating access to electricity. The global trends indicate a growing commitment to renewable energy development from developed and developing countries in both the introduction of specific policy levers and investment flows. Developing countries have now a long history of designing and implementing specific policy and regulatory instruments to promote renewable energy. Today, feed-in tariff policies are being implemented in about 25 developing countries and quantity based instruments, most notably auction mechanisms, are increasingly being adopted by upper middle income countries. This paper summarizes the results of a recent review of the emerging experience with the design and implementation of price and quota based instruments to promote renewable energy in a sample of six representative developing countries and transition economies. The paper discusses the importance of a tailor-made approach to policy design and identifies the basic elements that have proven instrumental to policy effectiveness, including adequate tariff levels, long term policy or contractual commitments, mandatory access to the grid and incremental cost pass-through. Ultimately, a low carbon development growth in the developing world depends on the availability of resources to finance the solutions that exhibit incremental costs. Policies introduced to support renewable energy development should be designed and introduced in combination with strategies that clearly identify sources of finance and establish a sustainable incremental cost recovery mechanism (for example, using concessional financial flows from developed countries to leverage private financing, strengthening the performance of utilities and distribution companies, or allowing the partial pass-through of incremental costs to consumer tariffs with a differentiated burden sharing that protects the poor). Without question, policy makers will have to ensure that the design of different policy mechanisms and the policy mix per se deliver renewable energy targets with the lowest possible incremental costs and volume of subsidies.

Автор: Jaime de Melo; Riccardo Faini
Название: Fiscal Issues in Adjustment in Developing Countries
ISBN: 0333586999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333586990
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Deals with aspects of the recent fiscal crisis in developing countries. Macro aspects cover theoretical underpinning of fiscal policy. Micro aspects cover the relation between private and public investment. The essays are by applied economists, who analyze real-life issues.

Автор: Delina, Laurence L.
Название: Accelerating sustainable energy transition(s) in developing countries
ISBN: 0367244705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367244705
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book explores how theenergy transition occurs in fourteen developing countries and broadly surveys their technological, policy, financing, and institutional capacities in response to the three key aspects of the transition: achieving universal energy access, harvesting energy efficiency, and deploying renewable energy.

Название: United Nations Handbook on Selected Issues in Protecting the Tax Base of Developing Countries
ISBN: 9211591112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211591118
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Analyses a number of topics which are of particular interest and relevance to developing countries in raising revenues and protecting the tax base. Primary audiences for this volume are officials of national tax authorities and ministries of finance in developing countries, other professionals dealing with tax matters, the general public, media and universities.

Автор: Mikesell
Название: Petroleum Company Operations and Agreements in the Developing Countries
ISBN: 1138184993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138184992
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Originally published in 1984, this study focuses on petroleum agreements between non-OPEC LDCs with oil-importing LDCs and how issues such as high oil prices affect each country. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies and economics.

Автор: Karim, Saiful ,
Название: Shipbreaking in developing countries :
ISBN: 1138818208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138818200
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Sitting at the intersection of three distinct fields-environmental justice, international environmental law and international maritime law- this book offers an innovative take on the issues surrounding the shipbreaking process.

Автор: Mukherjee, Chandan Etc. White, Howard Wuyts, Mark
Название: Econometrics and data analysis for developing countries
ISBN: 0415094003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415094009
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A rigorous but accessible foundation to modern data analysis and econometric practice. Contains many examples and exercises and data from developing countries which is available for immediate use on a free floppy disk.

Автор: Vagliasindi Maria
Название: Implementing Energy Subsidy Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries
ISBN: 0821395610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821395615
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: <p> In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life. Recent debate continues to engage issues of energy authoritarianism, focusing on the contest between energy-driven globalization (the spread of energy deregulation and the simultaneous consolidation of the oil, coal, and gas industries) and the so-called "sustainable energy" strategy that celebrates the local and community scale characteristics of renewable energy. Including theoretical inquiries and case studies by distinguished writers, <i>Transforming Power</i> is divided into three parts: Energy, Environment, and Society; The Politics of Conventional Energy; and The Politics of Sustainable Energy. It interrogates current contemporary energy assumptions, exploring the reflexive relationship between energy, environment, and society, and examining energy as a social project. Some of these have promised a prosperous future founded upon technological advances that further modernize the modern energy system, such as "inherently safe" nuclear power, environmentally friendly coal gasification, and the advent of a wealthier, cleaner world powered by fuel cells; and the "green technologies," said by advocates to prefigure a revival of human scale development, local self-determination, and a commitment to ecological balance. >br> This volume offers a timely engagement of the social issues surrounding energy conflicts and contradictions. It will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, sociologists, and historians of technology. <i>John Byrne</i> is director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of Delaware. <i>Noah Toly</i> is a research associate and Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware. <i>Leigh Glover</i> is policy fellow and assistant professor in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware.</p>

Автор: Hickey
Название: Energy and Human Resource Development in Developing Countries
ISBN: 1137576308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137576309
Издательство: Springer
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Автор: Yen
Название: Renewable Energy in Developing Countries
ISBN: 3319898086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319898087
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Описание: This book discusses aspects of policy and techno-economic analysis of renewable energy in developing countries. Renewable energy technologies have been one of the most important strategies in addressing sustainable energy development and climate change. The roles of renewable energy in developing countries are vital, which include the accessibility of modern energy services in rural areas, climate change mitigation, energy security, green job creation and eventually improvement of quality of life. Part I of this book focuses on policy and strategy, while Part II focuses on technology development and feasibility. Chapters are contributed by leading experts from the ASEAN Center of Energy, government agencies, industries, and universities from five developing countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam and Bangladesh.