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  • Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Ukraine (English)

    At the time of independence, in 1991, Ukraine had a monolithic state-run power sector. Its main concern was to transform the sector into a more efficient and competitive system that can be consistent with...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 168507 Document Date: July 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.

  • Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of The Philippines (English)

    The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage of supply in the late 1980s and the Asian Financial crisis of 1997, which made the...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8853 Document Date: May 13, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.

  • Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Pakistan (English)

    Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power producer program in 1994, the full unbundling of the national vertically integrated power...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8842 Document Date: May 6, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.

  • Who uses electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa ? findings from household surveys (English)

    Analysis of household expenditure surveys since 2008 in 22 Sub-Saharan African countries shows that one-third of all people use electricity. As expected, users are disproportionately urban and rich. In...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7789 Document Date: August 9, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kojima,Masami,Zhou,Xin,Han,Jeesun,De Wit,Joerie Frederik,Bacon,Robert W.,Trimble,Christopher Philip

  • Infrastructure and employment creation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (English)

    The state of national labor markets has always been a concern for governments and development agencies such as the World Bank. Key labor market indicators, such as the rate of unemployment, send signals...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 74918 Document Date: January 17, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.,Estache,Antonio,Ianchovichina,Elena,Salamon,Ilhem

  • Who uses bottled gas ? evidence from households in developing countries (English)

    Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two-stage Heckman model to examine the factors influencing the decision to use liquefied petroleum...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5731 Document Date: July 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami,Zhou, Xin

  • Issues in estimating the employment generated by energy sector activities (English)

    Many recent studies and reports on the performance of the energy sector have focused on the employment generated by investment. Governments, planning their energy futures, are also interested in the job...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 82732 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami

  • Expenditure of low-income households on energy : evidence from Africa and Asia (English)

    Patterns of household energy use and expenditure have been the subject of a large number of studies. Household expenditures on energy-particularly, how much the poor spend-have policy implications for...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 54929 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kojima,Masami,Bacon,Robert W.,Bhattacharya,Soma

  • Vulnerability to oil price increases : a decomposition analysis of 161 countries (English)

    This paper examines the levels of and changes in vulnerability to oil price increases between 1996 and 2006 in 161 countries for which data are available. Vulnerability defined here as the ratio of the...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 48422 Document Date: August 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami