The shift to private power means countries have to choose from among several institutional models, ranging from the privately owned, vertically integrated utility to the fully "unbundled" or "pure" model...
Most of the power industry's engineers and planners have gained their work experience in vertically integrated public utilities, where investments are identified through least-cost planning models and...
This paper was prepared at the request of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It addresses such issues as the costs of carbon emissions (or their...
This paper presents the analysis and results of three simulation studies on economic growth and pollution, undertaken for the 1992 World Development Report (WDR) on Development and the Environment. Because...
The author argues that efficient solutions to environmental problems are a means of improving a country's economic growth prospects and that policies to improve economic growth prospects will help environmental...
This paper analyzes approaches to environmental policy in developing countries. It reviews the policies of taxing pollution and the alternatives of regulating it, and the roles of public and private investment...
In large areas of developing countries the loss of trees is causing erosion and degradation of the soil, posing severe problems for economic development. By translating the ecological benefits of afforestation...
The paper provides an overview of several recent studies on the problems of raising public revenues and financing socially and economically desirable public programs in sub-Saharan Africa. It covers three...
The paper derives a relationship between the rate of economic growth and variables representing the rate and allocative efficiency of investment. Allocative efficiency is measured by the social rate of...
Although economists have discussed for many years the merits of relating prices to the marginal or incremental costs of supply in electrical utilities, the idea of marginal cost pricing has yet to gain...
Rural development projects aided by the World Bank provide institutional, financial, technical, economic, and infrastructural support for the broad-based growth of agriculture in which benefits are shared...
Rural development projects aided by the World Bank provide institutional, financial, technical, economic, and infrastructural support for the broad-based growth of agriculture in which benefits are shared...
Bien que les économistes débattent depuis de longues années des mérites d’une relation entre les prix et les coûts marginaux ou différentiels de l’approvisionnement de services d’électricité, l’idée de...
Although economists have discussed for many years the merits of relating prices to the marginal or incremental costs of supply in electrical utilities, the idea of marginal cost pricing has yet to gain...
Reasons for the measured fluctuations in maize and groundnut yields in the Lilongwe, Malawi land development program are examined. Groundnut yields were set back by the growth of disease (rosette). Now...
Electricity pricing policies have been dominated by financial questions; in particular by the need to maintain tariffs at levels that will help finance the large capital requirements of continually expanding...