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Energy 2

World Bank research on energy is guided by an energy strategy. The research program focuses on

  • renewable energy and energy efficiency
  • energy sector management and regulation
  • and energy-economic development linkages.
 Research focusThemes

Biofuels
Markets, economics and policies; standards and mandates; food vs. fuel debate; economic impacts; land-use change; biofuels & poverty, biofuels & energy prices, biofuels & climate change.

 
Energy, environment and climate change
Technical, economic, and environmental characteristics of specific energy sources and technologies, and associated policies related to their use.
  
Energy sector policy
Energy Sector regulation, fiscal policy and energy, and political economy of energy policy.
  • Power sector regulation
  • Energy taxes and subsidies

 

  

Energy and economic development 
Energy demand and access, infrastructure development.

  

Related links
World Bank web sites related to energy.

 Contacts Core Team

Govinda Timilsina
gtimilsina@worldbank.org

 

 

 World Bank Research on Energy

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The following policy research working papers are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options. For papers before 2007, please use document search at econ.worldbank.org/docsearch.

Last updated: 2010-07-23

Library

WPS6243Development of biofuels in China : technologies, economics and policiesShiyan, Chang; Lili, Zhao; Timilsina, Govinda R.; Xiliang, Zhang2012/10
WPS6117Economic analysis of projects in a greenhouse worldHamilton, Kirk; Stover, Jana2012/07
WPS6124Potential gains and losses of Biofuel production in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium analysisChisari, Omar O.; Romero, Carlos A.; Timilsina, Govinda2012/07
WPS6083Demand side instruments to reduce road transportation externalities in the greater Cairo metropolitan areaParry, Ian W.H.; Timilsina, Govinda R.2012/06
WPS6078Impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on global poverty and income distributionCororaton, Caesar B.; Timilsina, Govinda R.2012/06
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