Documents et rapports
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Eyes on the Road : Evaluating Road Quality over Time Using Satellite Imagery in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (anglais)
Reliable road networks drive economic and social development in emerging economies, particularly those in the Global South, and are crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 190799 Date du document: 31 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Muhebwa,Aggrey,Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Taneja,Jayant Kumar
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Infrastructure Complementarities and Local Economic Growth : Evidence from Electrification and Highway Construction in Brazil (anglais)
This paper uses four decades of data on Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10785 Date du document: 23 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Selod,Harris,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Trotter,Ian Michael,Blankespoor,Brian
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Road Investment and Violence in DRC : Perishable Effects (anglais)
This paper explores the effect of road rehabilitation projects on the incidence of violent events using a novel, rich dataset of road rehabilitation projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 190797 Date du document: 17 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria,Mueller,Hannes Felix,Schouten,Peerke,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Conflict and Cell Tower Destructions in the Central Sahel Region (anglais)
The objective of this study is to measure the extent of destruction of telecommunications infrastructure, the contexts in which telecommunications infrastructures are being targeted, and the associated...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 190798 Date du document: 26 avril 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Héni Nsaibia,Oughton,Edward John,Selod,Harris,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Infrastructure Complementarities and Local Economic Growth : Evidence from Electrification and Highway Construction in Brazil (anglais)
This paper uses panel data over four decades in Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 188725 Date du document: 14 mars 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Selod,Harris,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Trotter,Ian Michael,Blankespoor,Brian
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Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment : Evidence from Brazil (anglais)
How does the misallocation of complementary public capital affect the spatial organization of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper endogenizes the government's decision to invest in the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10650 Date du document: 18 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pérez-Sebastián,Fidel,Serrano Quintero,Rafael,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment : Evidence from Brazil (anglais)
How does the misallocation of complementary public capital affect the spatial organization of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper endogenizes the government’s decision to invest in the...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 188724 Date du document: 11 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fidel Pérez-Sebastián,Serrano Quintero,Rafael,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean responds to the urgent need to relaunch the energy efficiency agenda on the continent in the context of post-COVID recovery...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 182007 Date du document: 31 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chen,Ruoyu,Estevez Magnasco,Roberto Luis,Heins,Andrea Viviana,Rocha,Fany,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Vasquez Suarez,Claudia Ines
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Welfare and Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicle Tax Policies in Developing Countries : Evidence from Colombia (anglais)
Developing countries face a major challenge of decarbonizing their light-duty vehicle fleet and transitioning to the broad use of electric vehicles. However, there is little evidence on which policies...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10001 Date du document: 6 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Callejas, Jerónimo,Linn,Joshua Abraham,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Africa’s Resource Export Opportunities and the Global Energy Transition (anglais)
Sub-Saharan Africa has vast non-fuel mineral resources that in some countries constitute major shares of their gross domestic product. The region also contains large oil and natural gas resources, which...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 155067 Date du document: 15 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Galeazzi,Clara,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Cust,James Frederick
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Political Dividends of Digital Participatory Governance : Evidence from Moscow Pothole Management (anglais)
This study takes advantage of a publicly salient policy sphere -- road quality -- in the Russian Federation's capital city to explore the use of digital technologies as means of aggregating information...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9445 Date du document: 20 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gorgulu,Nisan,Sharafutdinova,Gulnaz,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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How Valuable is the Reliability of Residential Electricity Supply in Low-Income Countries ? Evidence from Nepal (anglais)
This study uses a contingent valuation approach to value the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for improved service experienced by households in Nepal following the end of the country's load-shedding crisis of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9311 Date du document: 30 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alberini,Anna,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Timilsina,Govinda R.
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Electricity Access and Structural Transformation : Evidence from Brazil's Electrification (anglais)
This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9182 Date du document: 13 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Perez Sebastian,Fidel,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Feres,Jose Gustavo,Trotter,Ian Michael
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Modeling Uncertainty in Large Natural Resource Allocation Problems (anglais)
The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors, which obscure individual investors and governments that seek to make long-term, sometimes...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9159 Date du document: 20 février 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cai,Yongyang,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs,Judd,Kenneth L.,Jaegermeyr,Jonas,Hertel,Thomas W.
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Willingness to Pay for Electricity Access in Extreme Poverty : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8906 Date du document: 20 juin 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sievert,Maximiliane,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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How much has Nepal lost in the last decade due to load shedding? an economic assessment using a CGE model (anglais)
Nepal suffered with severe shortage of electricity supply or load shedding in the last decade. Electricity load shedding is considered one of the major barriers to the country's economic development. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8468 Date du document: 7 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Timilsina,Govinda R.,Sapkota,Prakash Raj,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Why are connection charges so high ? an analysis of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This study develops and structurally estimates a model of household and electric utility behavior to describe how the low access rates and high connection charges that are common in the Sub-Saharan Africa...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8407 Date du document: 16 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blimpo,Moussa Pouguinimpo,Mcrae,Shaun David,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Effect of climate policies on labor markets in developing countries : review of the evidence and directions for future research (anglais)
This study surveys one of the critical welfare aspects of contemplating climate policies in developing countries and their potential effect on workers and labor markets. The existing body of evidence finds...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8332 Date du document: 7 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hafstead,Marc Andrew Christian,Williams III,Roberton C.,Golub,Alexander Alexandrovich,Meijer,Siet,Narayanan,Badri G.,Nyamweya,Kevin,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Public infrastructure and structural transformation (anglais)
This study argues that public infrastructure is an important though previously neglected driving mechanism of the structural transformation process. To assess its significance quantitatively, this study...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8285 Date du document: 19 décembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Perez Sebastian,Fidel,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
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Governors matter : a comparative study of state-business relations in Russia's regions (anglais)
This study uses the latest 2011 round of Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation to take a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business environment...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 115267 Date du document: 6 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sharafutdinova,Gulnaz,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs