Mitigating vulnerability to high and volatile oil prices : : power sector experience in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Rigoberto Ariel Yepez-Garcia, Julie Dana

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970597703321
• Autore: Yepez-Garcia Rigoberto Ariel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2012
• ISBN: 9786613693440; 9781280783050; 1280783052; 9780821395783; 0821395785
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: pages cm
• Collana: Directions in development. Energy and mining
• Altri autori (Persone): DanaJulie <1969->
• Disciplina: 338.2/3282098
• Soggetti: Petroleum products - Prices - Latin America; Petroleum products - Prices - Caribbean Area; Energy consumption - Latin America; Energy consumption - Caribbean Area; Energy policy - Latin America; Energy policy - Caribbean Area
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Units of Measure; Executive Summary; Oil Price Evolution and Risk Exposure; Figures; ES.1 Oil Trade Balance as a Percentage of GDP; Who Bears the Risk Burden?; Reducing Short-Term Price Uncertainty; Reducing Oil Consumption over the Long Run; What Can Be Done; How Much Can It Help?; Tables; ES.1 Overlapping Time Frames for Implementing Alternatives to Manage Oil Price Volatility; Chapter 1 Introduction; Effects of High and Volatile Oil Prices; 1.1 Evolution of WTI Oil Prices and Volatility, 2000-12; Study Background and Objective; Structure of This ReportNotes; References; Chapter 2 Economic Effects of High and Volatile Oil Prices; Effects of High Oil Prices; Effects of Oil Price Volatility; What Is the Risk Distribution?; 2.1 Pricing, Utility ; Ownership, and Stakeholder Relationships; 2.1 Distribution Scenarios of Higher Energy Costs; Boxes; 2.1 Reducing the Cost Burden of Subsidies; Summary Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Economic Indicators of Vulnerability: Analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean; Oil Trade Dynamics; 3.1 Country and Subregional Comparisons of Oil Imports as Share of GDP; 3.2 Ratio of Net Oil Imports or Exports to GDP in LAC Countries3.3 Comparisons of Primary Energy Supply by Source, 2008; Oil Exporter versus Importer; 3.1 Regional Energy Cooperation for Socioeconomic Development; 3.1 Oil Imports in Central America, 2006-08; 3.2 Oil Expenditure as Share of GDP in Central America, 2006-08; Dynamics of Oil Price Hikes and Subsidies; 3.4 Growth Effect Comparisons from Higher Oil Prices in Latin America and the Caribbean; 3.3 Macroeconomic Effects of Higher Oil Prices in Selected Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; 3.4 Change in Energy Subsidies in Central America, 2007-08Summary Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Managing Oil Price Dynamics in the Power Sector: Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean; Oil-Dependent Energy Mix and Cost of Power Generation; Distribution of Costs and Risks; 4.1 Electricity Generation Mix in Selected Countries and Regions, 2007; 4.1 Oil Price Exposure in Guatemala; 4.2 Impact of Oil Price Changes on Power Generation Costs, 2006; 4.1 Electricity Market Structure in Central America and the Caribbean; 4.2 Majority Ownership of Power Utilities in Countries of Central America and the CaribbeanEconomic Impacts on the Sector; 4.2 Subsidies and Fiscal Vulnerability in Honduras; 4.3 Pricing Policy Trade-Offs in Guyana; 4.4 Peru's Oil Stabilization Fund; Summing Up; Note; Reference; Chapter 5 Price Risk Management Instruments; Overview of Instruments; 5.1 Overview of Selected Hedging Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages; Risk Assessment; 5.1 Prices of WTI Crude Oil, Heating Oil, and HFO, 2001-10; Hedging Possibilities for Power Market Agents; 5.1 Hedging Natural Gas for Mexican Generators and Final Consumers
• Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses the need of oil-importing countries to mitigate vulnerability to oil price volatility. It offers financial instruments to manage price risk, complemented by structural measures designed to reduce oil consumption.

The Civilising Offensive : Social and educational reform in 19th century Belgium / / Christoph de Spiegeleer, Liberaal Archief

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910309747903321
• Autore: de Spiegeleer Christoph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: De Gruyter, 2019; München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2019
• ISBN: 9783110579178; 3110579170; 9783110581546; 311058154X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 900; 949.3030000000
• Soggetti: Internationalismus; Sozialreform; Soziale Frage; Bildungsreform; HISTORY / Social History; Belgium Social conditions 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 1. New Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Introduction / De Spiegeleer, Christoph -- Part I. Social-Pedagogical Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform -- 2. "On voit bien que c'est un petit malheureux des Hospices". The Child, the Body and the Bath in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: a Cure for the Future? / De Wilde, Lieselot / Vanobbergen, Bruno / Vandenbroeck, Michel -- 3. The Social Question as an Urban Question. A Social-Pedagogical Analysis of Participatory Initiatives in Rabot (Ghent) during the Nineteenth Century / Deceur, Evelyne / Bouverne-De Bie, Maria / Van Gorp, Angelo -- Part II. New Topics in the History of Social and Educational Reform -- 4. ; Catholic Fundraising to Educate the Poor. The History of the Société Civile du Crédit de la Charité (1855-1878) / Van de Perre, Stijn -- 5. Putting the Rural World on the Road of Progress? Experiences of Failure by Local Activists of the Belgian Education League (c. 1865-1884) / Reimann, Christina -- 6. Schools of Decency and Discipline. Social Reform and People's Restaurants in the Low Countries (1860s-1914) / Tyssens, Jeffrey -- Part III. Transnational Connections and Circulations -- 7. The Opposite of Dante's Hell? The Transfer of Ideas for Social Housing at International Congresses in the 1850s- 1860s / Van Praet, Carmen -- 8. (Re‐)educational Internationalism in the Low Countries, 1850-1914 / Thiry, Amandine / D'haeninck, Thomas / Verbruggen, Christophe -- 9. The Intellectual Mobility of Auguste Wagener (1829-1896) in a Transnational Network of Social Reform. A Cross-Border History / D'haeninck, Thomas -- Notes on Authors -- Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: "This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the 'social question' by 'civilising' and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe's most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium, as well as their main international actors. This book aims to place the history of social, moral and educational reform in Belgium during the long 19th century within a broader European perspective. This collection of contributions by both young and established scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds not only fills some gaps in Belgian historiography, but also offers a better understanding of broad epochal processes such as the bourgeois civilising offensive, the expansion of educational action and the historical growth of welfare states.