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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048268430
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Papers
    Content: The term energy access has various connotations to energy development specialists. For this review, we define energy access as relating both to physical proximity to energy infrastructure and to the policies and frameworks supporting the transition to better, reliable, and more efficient use of electricity and modern fuels. This viewpoint frames energy access as a development process sometimes referred to as the energy transition that starts with reliance on low-quality energy sources (straw, dung, candles) and finishes when high-quality energy sources, such as commercial fuels or electricity, are available. Access to these higher-quality energy sources allow for services (lighting, communication, cooling, pumping), which are not available at lower rungs of the energy ladder. This report focuses on the World Bank's portfolio of energy access-related projects approved during most of the past decade (FY2000-08). The objectives of the review were to compile an up-to-date data base on energy access-related assistance commitments and review current trends and patterns of energy access-related assistance. The authors also wanted to examine to the greatest extent possible the lessons that could be learned across regions, focusing on policy and project design recommendations. Finally, it was important to establish a solid methodology for measuring energy access in order to provide a baseline for future reviews of the investment portfolio. This study focuses on the World Bank's role in energy access investments for the period between fiscal years 2000 and 2008. Developing and transition countries face huge investments in energy access in order to meet their commitments to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
    Language: English
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265530
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (39 p)
    Content: This paper applies an econometric analysis to estimate the average and distribution benefits of rural electrification using rich household survey data from India. The results support that rural electrification helps to reduce time allocated to fuelwood collection by household members and increases time allocated to studying by boys and girls. Rural electrification also increases the labor supply of men and women, schooling of boys and girls, and household per capita income and expenditure. Electrification also helps reduce poverty. But the larger share of benefits accrues to wealthier rural households, with poorer ones having more limited use of electricity. The analysis also shows that restricted supply of electricity, due to frequent power outages, negatively affects both household electricity connection and its consumption, thereby reducing the expected benefits of rural electrification
    Additional Edition: Khandker, Shahidur R Who Benefits Most from Rural Electrification?
    Language: English
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265945
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
    Content: Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural residents. This poor performance can be linked to various factors, including political interference in utility policy, higher investment costs and lower profitability of extending service to rural areas. But a major obstacle to wider access is the high charges consumers must pay to connect to the electricity network. The connection charges in Sub-Saharan Africa are among the highest in the world, which has resulted in low rates of electrification in many countries. This paper reviews ways to improve electrification rates by addressing the issue of high connection charges. Essential to the success of such efforts is concurrent political commitment to identify, examine, and implement various low-cost electrification approaches and financing solutions as part of a broad plan to improve access. Electricity companies can lower their connection-related costs, and thus consumer charges, by using a variety of low-cost technologies and materials in distribution networks and household connections; making bulk purchases of materials; and adjusting technical standards to reflect the lower loads of households that use a minimum amount of electricity. Strategies for lowering connection charges may also include spreading charges over a reasonable period, rolling them into monthly service payments, subsidizing connections, or amortizing them through loans. Lowering connection charges is not the only step, but it is an essential part of any strategy for addressing the electricity access gap between rich and poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa, a gap that denies millions of poor Africans the benefits of electricity
    Additional Edition: Golumbeanu, Raluca Connection Charges and Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Language: English
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264774
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (50 p)
    Content: Access to energy, especially modern sources, is a key to any development initiative. Based on cross-section data from a 2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use, including that of modern energy, and estimates the household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves) and modern (electricity and kerosene) sources improves household consumption and income, the return on modern sources is 20 to 25 times higher than that on traditional sources. In addition, after comparing alternate measures of the energy poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent that are income poor. The findings suggest that growth in electrification and adoption of efficient cooking stoves for biomass use can lower energy poverty in a climate-friendly way by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy poverty helps reduce income poverty as well
    Additional Edition: Samad, Hussain A Energy Access, Efficiency, and Poverty
    Language: English
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  • 5
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048263650
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 164 p) , ill
    ISBN: 0821383590 , 0821383639 , 9780821383599 , 9780821383636
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no. 193
    Note: "Investment climate in health series"--P. iii. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-164) , MethodologyAssessment findings and issues -- Recommendations
    Language: English
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  • 6
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048263611
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 141 p) , ill., maps
    ISBN: 082137897X , 9780821378977
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no. 181
    Note: "This study was conducted with the technical and financial support from the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), the collaborative efforts of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka and the World Bank" --p. xi. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-138)
    Language: English
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  • 7
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264906
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (40 p)
    Content: Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as cooking and lighting. This paper proposes an alternative measure that is based on energy demand. The energy poverty line is defined as the threshold point at which energy consumption begins to rise with increases in household income. This approach was applied to cross-sectional data from a comprehensive 2005 household survey representative of both urban and rural India. The findings suggest that in rural areas some 57 percent of households are energy poor, versus 22 percent that are income poor. For urban areas the energy poverty rate is 28 percent compared with 20 percent that are income poor. Policies to reduce energy poverty would include support for rural electrification, the promotion of more modern cooking fuels, and encouraging greater adoption of improved biomass stoves. A combination of these programs would play a significant role in reducing energy poverty in rural India
    Additional Edition: Khandker, Shahidur R Energy poverty in rural and urban India
    Language: English
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  • 8
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040237006
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 310 Seiten) , Diagramme
    ISBN: 9783805595674
    Series Statement: Progress in respiratory research Vol. 39
    Content: Asthma, allergy and chronic obstructive lung disease are common throughout the world and are increasing in incidence, particularly in the developing world. This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of the identification of new targets and the development of new therapies for these conditions. Some 40 chapters by clinical academics and senior members of the pharmaceutical industry detail the latest breakthroughs in research and development. In asthma, a promising approach is the use of therapy directed against specific Th2 responses through biological antagonists of IL-5, IL-4 and IL-13. There have also been major advances in our understanding of innate immune responses to pathogen-associated molecular patterns, and in the area of Toll-like receptors.〈br〉Up to date and comprehensive, this book will be of particular relevance to those working in the pharmaceutical industry (in preclinical research and clinical development), to academic researchers in the field of respiratory medicine, and to respiratory health care specialists
    Note: Reporting the latest progress
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-8055-9566-7
    Language: English
    Subjects: Medicine
    RVK:
    Keywords: Bronchialasthma ; Obstruktive Ventilationsstörung ; Targeted drug delivery ; Arzneimittelentwicklung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Author information: Barnes, Peter J. 1946-
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  • 9
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048845981
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 257 Seiten) , ill
    ISBN: 9781780526638
    Series Statement: Advances in industrial & labor relations v. 19
    Content: This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior by looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. Reconsidering misbehavior from a range of different perspectives and disciplinary traditions, including history, employment relations, sociology, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, legal studies and film studies, chapters examine behaviors not only of workers but also of managers, entrepreneurs and consumers. The book begins with an overview by one of the leading scholars of misbehavior, Stephen Ackroyd, who reviews the study of the phenomenon, followed by conceptual reconsideration of the relationship between misbehavior and resistance in a changing industrial landscape. The remainder of the book traverses dimensions of misbehavior and resistance across time and geographical space through a number of case studies that examine behaviors in a range of different places, industries and sectors. In this way it extends analysis to actors outside of the workers who have largely been the focus of existing studies. The volume will add to the emerging body of evidence that disturbs assumptions of consensus and conformity in organizations
    Note: Even More Mis / Stephen Ackroyd -- Still "Staying Loose in a Tightening World"? Revisiting Gerald Mars Cheats at Work / Louise Thornthwaite, Peter McGraw -- Naming, Condoning, and Shaming: Interpreting Employee Assessments of Behavior and Misbehavior in the Workplace / Lucy Taksa -- Mr Taylor Goes to Hollywood: Misbehavior in Film and TV / George Lafferty -- On the Cold War Front: Dissent, Misbehavior, and Discursive Relations at Pan American Airways Guided Missiles Division / Christopher M. Hartt, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills -- Incorporating Institutionalism: Reconceptualizing the Resistance and Misbehavior Binaries / Tony Dundon, Diane van den Broek -- Customer Service Work and the Aesthetics of Resistance / Alison Barnes -- Customers Behaving Badly! / Lawrence Ang, Scott Koslow -- Exploring Entrepreneurship as Misbehavior / Erik Lundmark, Alf Westelius -- Misbehavior, its Dimensions, and Relationship to Commitment in Organizations / Gordon Brooks
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
    RVK:
    Keywords: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040481559
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 325 S.) , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Edition: 2. ed.
    ISBN: 9783642309632 , 9783642309649
    Language: English
    Subjects: Mathematics
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geometrie ; Einführung ; Einführung
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