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Person
Heitor Pellegrina
Heitor is Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests include trade and development.
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Publication - Working Paper
Political favoritism and the targeting of power outages
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Project
The political economy of power outages in Ghana: New measures and analysis
Access to energy is crucial for economic growth. While global attention has focused heavily on increasing access, an under-recognised constraint in many countries is poor reliability of electricity supply. This project introduces a new measure of power supply reliability and outages based upon temporal variations in nighttime light output. This work builds upon ongoing...
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Publication - Working Paper
Executive branch turnover, policy uncertainty, and growth
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Publication - Project Report
Peshawar’s historic walled city: Firms, mobility, and public services
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Person
Javed Iqbal
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Project
Rapid response to Pakistan’s Task Force on Energy Reforms
Pakistan’s power sector is in deep need of reform. The sector suffers from chronic shortages not because of a lack of supply but due to the financial woes of the distribution companies operating throughout Pakistan. Of the electricity sold for use across the country, only 71% is recovered through bills. Such large losses risk collapsing the sector if left...
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Project
Managing agricultural risk in Mozambique
Mozambique is primarily an agricultural economy with 81% of its population engaged in agriculture, which accounts for 32% of its GDP. “There are now 400 extreme weather events every year, four times as many as in 1970” (The Economist, 2017). The direct costs of these extreme events in the form of lost lives, assets, and habitat are evident. For farmers in...
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Publication - Project Report
Managing agricultural risk in Mozambique