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Do Consumers Respond to Marginal Prices at Kink Points? Evidence From 40+ Million Electricity Bills in Ethiopia

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leveraging over 40 million residential electricity billing records from more than one million meters in Ethiopia, we test whether consumers respond to marginal prices at kink points under an increasing block tariff (IBT). We exploit a unique institutional setting in which two distinct billing systems (manual postpaid and automated prepaid ...
Tensay Hadush Meles, Gunnar Köhlin
wiley   +1 more source

Social Equity Through Women's Empowerment: Women's Participation in Local Politics, Budgeting and Decision‐Making in Bangladesh

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares governance structures, policy formulation and implementation of administrative digitalization at the local level in three countries with different administrative traditions: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Sabine Kuhlmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of stroke prevention: a review of challenges and opportunities in the Americas. [PDF]

open access: yesLancet Reg Health Am
Martins SO   +44 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Digital Port Exposure in China's Maritime Connectivity

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's maritime infrastructure expansion is usually analyzed through finance, ownership, location, and dual‐use potential. This article shifts attention to the digital systems through which ports now operate. It develops the concept of digital port exposure to describe how foreign‐linked digital systems become embedded in port operations ...
Matthew Rochat
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Effects of Public Expenditure: The Challenge of Multi‐Level Governance Systems

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The public economy literature shows that dynamic effects of public expenditure vary across programs, giving governments incentives to allocate spending with precision. However, this may be difficult in multi‐level governance, where centrally funded expenditure is implemented locally.
Jens Blom‐Hansen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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