KEY MESSAGESMost of the businesses in rural areas are home-based, i.e., the household runs businesses such as food sales, restaurants, mobile, and electronics shops, barbering, etc., within their residence. Rural households’ business ownership increased from 17.5% in 2011 to 28.5% in 2016. We found that: |
Uganda’s participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program, so-called IGE fellows, call for national policy instruments that have clear objectives and implementation plans. They also emphasize…
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
Dear All: We are pleased to announce that the virtual sessions of the Seventh Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) will take place on June 23-24, 2022 (09:00 am - 12…
The Ethiopian team in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program conducted a workshop on the draft National Policy Review (NPR) covering three themes; fossil fuel, plastic pollution, and forest loss…
Contemporary structural models of the global market for crude oil jointly specify precautionary and speculative demand shocks as a composite shock, named a storage demand shock. We resolve this identification problem and examine the effects of these distinct shocks, along with conventional demand and supply shocks, on the global price of crude oil. We find that uncertainty driven precautionary demand for crude oil is, on average, the primary driver of real price of oil fluctuations that have previously been associated with storage demand shocks.
The peer-learning project “Policy-research partnerships for pragmatic evaluation of climate change adaptation and development models in the ag-energy sector” was launched on April 6th in an online…
Professor Carlos Chávez at EfD Chile spoke with Iván Palomo, Professor at the University of Talca and host of the TV show “More Knowledge” about a stove replacement project that shows very promising…
The EfD center at Makerere University (EfD-Mak Center) has unveiled its advisory board. The board is chaired by Associate Professor Umar Kakumba, the Deputy Vice-chancellor, in charge of Academic…