Submit your work here: https://bit.ly/3x8uh34 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the EfD Chile center "Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE)", will take place on October…
The 2024 CECFEE - EfD India workshop emerged as a pivotal platform for bridging academic research and practical policy solutions in environmental economics. The workshop illuminated the complex…
Water scarcity in rural areas has far-reaching socioeconomic implications, especially for women and girls in rural areas who are primarily responsible for water collection. The limited water resources
This paper compares efficiency scores from the data envelopment analysis (DEA), stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), and stochastic non-parametric envelopment of data (StoNED) methods in the context of regulating South African water utilities. We estimate cost efficiency based on cross-sectional data from 102 South African water utilities in the period 2013/14. We compare the impact of methodological choices on the efficiency scores. For StoNED, we compare scores from two different estimation techniques (method of moments and pseudolikelihood).
Abstract: Utilities across the global require stable revenue streams to provide customers access to high quality energy, water, sanitation, and other essential services. This requires policy makers to set prices to cover costs, promote the efficient use of resources, and ensure services are affordable. It also requires that customers pay their bills. Historically, utilities have used disconnections, or the threat of disconnection, to compel customers to pay their bills on time.
A team consisting of EfD Kenya, international associates, and the Nairobi City Water and Sewer Company has, over the last decade, collaborated to solve challenges related to providing and funding
EfD Ethiopia (Environment and Climate Research Center, ECRC) hosted a thought-provoking seminar titled Thirsting for Solutions: The Impact of Water Scarcity on Migration. This event, which took place…
More than 60 participants from academia, policymakers, NGOs, and environmental organizations convened on October 24th and 25th at the Tenth Annual Meeting of NENRE EfD Chile to discuss and address the…
