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Rakesh Prasad, Malini Ranganathan, P. B. Singh, and I. H. Rehman, “How Community Participation Can Integrate Energy Transitions into Rural Developm...
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Rakesh Prasad, Malini Ranganathan, P. B. Singh, and I. H. Rehman, “How Community Participation Can Integrate Energy Transitions into Rural Development — The Experience of Four North Indian Villages.” This article looks at the role of community participation in promoting transitions to more efficient fuels and technologies—including renewable energy devices—among rural people. The authors use four villages in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh as a case study of this approach.
Salah Abosedra and Stanislav Radchenko, “Oil Stock Management and Futures Prices: Empirical Analysis.” This paper reexamines the Granger causality and cointegration relationships between oil inventory levels and spot and futures oil prices for the United States over the period of 1992-2001.
Richard G. Zind, “On Oil and Manufacturing in the Arabian Gulf Nations.” This study assesses the evolution of oil prices and revenues, the impact on sectoral outputs of the fluctuations in oil revenues and, through the parameters of a production function, the average and marginal productivity levels of labor and capital in the manufacturing sector. The estimates suggest that the purchasing power of oil revenues has been eroded significantly, that oil revenues no longer respond significantly to changes in oil price changes, and that production is subject to constant returns to scale in Kuwait, increasing returns in the United Arab Emirates, and diminishing returns in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia
M. Nagy Eltony, “Transportation Demand for Energy: The Case for Kuwait.” This study presents a model of the demand for oil products in the transportation sector in Kuwait using time-series data for the period 1975-2000.
Catherine Locatelli, “The Viability of Deregulation in the Russian Gas Industry.” Russia is the world’s leading natural gas producer and reforming this industry has been a major challenge for the government. This paper discusses the issues involving deregulation of the gas industry, reform, and the role played by Gazprom.
S. M. R. Tayyebi Jazayeri and A. Yahyai, “Analysis of Structural Change in Quarterly Oil Demand.” The purpose of this study is to improve the quality and the accuracy of short-term oil demand forecasts by analyzing historical consumption data critically, examining the seasonality of quarterly oil consumption, and presenting some insights into the trends of structural changes in the seasonal factors.
Fred O. Boadu and Tolulope Olofinbiyi, “Relational Characteristics of the Flexibility Mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol: Implications for Sub-Saharan African Countries.” This paper uses a transaction cost framework to examine the implications of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism for countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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