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2011-08-02
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Access to Energy for the Poor: The Clean Energy Option
priceofoil.org – This report finds that only 9 percent of World Bank Group energy sector lending in 2009 and 2010 actually went to support basic energy needs in communities that lacked access to energy. The report also demonstrates that, in India...
2011-07-28
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Oil for Uganda or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?
cgdev.org – In 2009, commercially exploitable reserves of oil were found in the Albertine Lakes Basin in Uganda. Along with a number of new oil exporters, Uganda now faces the challenge of using the new resources to advance its development agenda...
2011-07-28
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Global Trends In Renewable Energy Investment 2011
jumanjisolar.com – Investments in renewable energies, from wind and solar power to geothermal and waste-into-energy, continued their remarkable growth in 2010. The UN climate convention in Durban later in the year, followed by the Rio+20...
2011-07-28
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Evaluating Policies to Increase the Generation of Electricity from Renewable Energy
web.mit.edu – Focusing on the U.S. and the E.U., this essay seeks to advance four main propositions. First, the incidence of the short-run costs of programs to subsidize the generation of electricity from renewable sources varies with the...
