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Multimedia Item - Video
Facebook live interview with Jeffrey Sachs
Tim Dobermann (International Growth Centre) speaks to Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, about the tradeoffs between economic growth and sustainable development.
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Project
Investigating the environmental and economic benefits of energy efficient brick kilns
Conventional brick kilns—Bull’s Trench Kiln (BTK)—in Pakistan’s Punjab province are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and harmful particulates which exacerbate climate change and deteriorate ambient air quality. Targeting emissions from brick kilns provides an avenue for Punjab’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) to bring the provincial...
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Blog post
Non-price energy conservation and household energy consumption: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Research in Bangladesh shows that non-price energy conservation programmes can help support achieving energy efficiency especially regarding residential electricity usage. Household electricity consumption accounts for 40% of global energy related CO2 emissions and this is expected to grow globally by 58% by 2030 if no measures are introduced (Rasul & Hollywood 2012). ...
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Case Study: Energy
Innovative regulations to reduce pollution
Our research has found inducing firms to be more transparent about how much they pollute could improve the effectiveness of environmental regulations.
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Publication - Project Report
Powering the powerless: Economic impact of rural electrification in Ghana
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Blog post
The economic impacts of investing in rural electrification in Ghana
Ending energy poverty is recognised by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7. In Ghana, significant progress in extending electricity access across the country has been made, particularly in rural areas where access levels rose from 1% to 63% of the population between 1991 and 2014. However, evidence on the economic benefits of rural electrification projects remains...
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Publication - Project Report
Solar microgrids and remote energy access: How weak incentives can undermine smart technology
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Publication - Working Paper
Liquidity constraint, LPG stoves, and charcoal consumption: A randomised controlled trial in Tanzania
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Publication - Policy Brief
Facility-level access to electricity and the efficiency of maternal and child health services
This project is the first known attempt to directly investigate whether facility level electrification improves the provision of maternal and child health services. Rather than simply correlate electrification with levels of utilisations, we study the relationship between electrification and levels of efficiency in the provision of maternal and child health...
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Publication - Working Paper
Curbing leakage in public programs: Evidence from India’s direct benefit transfer policy