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“Building long-term relationships with policymakers is the biggest challenge”

Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…

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SETI 2022 Anual Workshop - Virtual Sessions

Dear All: We are pleased to announce that the virtual sessions of the Seventh Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) will take place on June 23-24, 2022 (09:00 am - 12…

Date: Thursday 23 — Friday 24 June, 2022
Location: Virtual
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Inclusive Green Economy in Practice - Policy instruments for an inclusive green economy

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

The Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) in Practice program is a capacity development program to increase the knowledge and application of environmental economic policy instruments, organizational change, and strengthen national systems for inclusive and sustainable economic development.

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Agriculture, Energy, Forestry, Policy Design, Urban

Time-varying pricing may increase total electricity consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica

Submitted by Marianela Arguello on
EfD Authors:
Alpizar, Francisco
Madrigal-Ballestero, Roger
Pattanayak, Subhrendu

We study the implementation of a time-varying pricing (TVP) program by a major electricity utility in Costa Rica. Because of particular features of the data, we use recently developed understanding of the two-way fixed effects differences-in-differences estimator along with event-study specifications to interpret our results. Similar to previous research, we find that the program reduces consumption during peak-hours. However, in contrast with previous research, we find that the program increases total consumption.

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Energy, Policy Design, Urban

Valuing the unvalued recreational ecosystem services in developing cities of sub-Saharan Africa: urban parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Tibesigwa, Byela
Ntuli, Herbert

Being mostly rural, Dar es Salaam has always been characterized by greenery and more recently by green space development. However, the values of these spaces are often not known. Note that these unknown values are common to sub-Saharan Africa. In order to make informed decisions in the management of these spaces, it is important that the values are assessed and documented. In this study, we do so by estimating the economic value of recreational parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Biodiversity, Land, Urban
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