New research highlights a growing and underreported issue, the burning of waste as household fuel in urban slums, a practice that raises serious concerns about the health and environmental…
A study by EfD researchers Saudamini Das and E. Somanathan found that high temperatures cause significant income losses and health problems for informal sector workers, such as street vendors and
The next EEU seminar will be held on Monday the 3rd of March at 12:10 – 13:15 in B44. The seminar will be held by Toke Panduro and he will be presenting a paper on the topic of: Climate Adaptation and…
AbstractThis study examined the effects of public infrastructural development and industrialization on economic complexity in Africa, and how industrialization is moderating the effect of public infrastructural development on economic complexity. The study adopted the pooled ordinary least squares, the dynamic system generalized method of moments and the dynamic bias‐corrected least squares dummy variable estimators with a panel of 34 African economies over the period 2010–2021.
The NENRE EfD-Chile team, together with 100 other researchers from Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, met at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society for Regional Studies (SOCHER)…
Informal workers in Delhi face large income losses and health risks from summer heat stress Delhi is experiencing increasingly severe and prolonged heat waves, with the summer of 2024 breaking records…
Date: 29 November 2024 Time: 13:00 - 15:00 (UTC +2) You are invited to an SA-TIED policy dialogue titled " Powering Economic Recovery: Lessons from South Africa’s Electricity Crisis". The discussion…
Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydropower are essential for reducing global carbon emissions by replacing fossil fuel-based energy generation. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency ((IRENA), 2020), the large-scale deployment of renewable energy, combined with energy efficiency improvements, has the potential to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions by 70% by 2050.
Before 2018, the electricity tariff in Ethiopia was one of the lowest in the world contributing to low revenues for power suppliers and a reduction in the quality of electricity services provided to
More than 60 participants from academia, policymakers, NGOs, and environmental organizations convened on October 24th and 25th at the Tenth Annual Meeting of NENRE EfD Chile to discuss and address the…