Africa's power infrastructure : : investment, integration, efficiency / / Anton Eberhard ... [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972017303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C : , : World Bank, , [2011]; copyright 2011
• ISBN: 9786613100047; 9781283100045; 1283100045; 9780821386521; 0821386522
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxix, 317 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Directions in development. Infrastructure
• Altri autori (Persone): EberhardAnton A
• Disciplina: 333.793/20967
• Soggetti: Rural electrification - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Energy policy - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Capital investments - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Africa unplugged -- The region's underdeveloped energy resources -- The lag in installed generation capacity -- Stagnant and inequitable access to electricity services -- Unreliable electricity supply -- The prevalence of back-up generators -- Increasing use of leased emergency power -- A power crisis exacerbated by drought, conflict, and high oil prices -- High power costs that generally do not cover costs -- Deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development -- The promise of regional power trade -- Uneven distribution and poor economies of scale -- Despite power pools, low regional power trade -- The potential benefits of expanded regional power trading -- What regional patterns of trade would emerge? -- Water resources management and hydropower development -- Who gains most from power trade? -- How will less hydropower development influence trade flows? -- What are the environmental impacts of trading power? -- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power ; investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? -- Increasing cost recovery -- On budget spending : raising capital budget execution -- Improving utility performance -- Savings from efficiency-oriented reforms -- Annual funding gap -- How much additional finance can be raised? -- Little scope for raising more domestic finance -- Official development assistance : sustaining the scale-up -- Non-OECD financiers will growth continue? -- Private investors : over the hill -- Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term -- Bank lending -- Equity -- Corporate bonds -- The most promising ways to increase funds -- What else can be done? -- Taking more time -- Lowering costs through regional integration -- The way forward.
• Sommario/riassunto: Africa?s chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electrification, low power consumption, unreliable services, and high costs. It also faces a power sector financing gap on the order of 21 billion a year. It spends only about a quarter of what it needs to spend on power, much of this on operating expenditure required to run the continent?s high-cost power systems, leaving little for the huge ; investments needed to provide a long-term

Engineering your retirement : retirement planning for technology professionals / / Mike Golio

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019605503321
• Autore: Golio John Michael <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : J. Wiley & Sons, c2007
• ISBN: 9786610721924; 9780470653937; 0470653930; 9781280721922; 1280721928; 9780470112472; 0470112476; 9780470112465; 0470112468
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 646.79; 646.790885
• Soggetti: Engineers - Retirement; Scientists - Retirement; Professional employees - Retirement; Retirement - Planning
• 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 (p. 183-197) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface. -- Acknowledgments. -- 1. Retire On Your Schedule. -- 1.1. Retirement Options. -- 1.2. Is There a Retirement Crisis? -- 1.3. How Much Do I Need to Retire? -- 1.4. How Long Will it Take Me to Save Enough Money? -- 1.5. Learning Your Own Life Values. -- 2 Analysis Tools and Calculations. -- 2.1. Predictions Based on Average Returns and Inflation. -- 2.2. Spending Models. -- 2.3. Historical Data. -- 2.4. Monte Carlo Simulation. -- 2.5. Historical Simulation and the 4% Rule. ; -- 3 Live Below Your Means (LBYM). -- 3.1. Spending. -- 3.2. Breaking the Relationship Between Earning and Spending. -- 3.3. Establishing Budget Projections. -- 3.4. Credit Cards. -- 3.5. Increasing Earnings. -- 4 Emergency Funds and Insurance (First Take Care of Stability). -- 4.1. Medical Insurance and Healthcare Budgets. -- 4.2. Emergency Fund. -- 4.3. Personal Financial Concerns. -- 4.4. Documents. -- 5 Investment Instruments. -- 5.1. Bonds. -- 5.2. Stocks. -- 5.3. Real Estate. -- 5.4. Annuities. -- 5.5. Defined Benefit Plans (Pensions). -- 5.6. Cash and Certificates of Deposit. -- 5.7. Social Security. -- 5.8. Mutual Funds. -- 5.9. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). -- 5.10. Commodities. -- 6 Your Investment Plan. -- 6.1. Eliminate "Bad́<U+009d> Debt. -- 6.2. Investment Issues. -- 6.3. Tax-Advantaged Accounts and Free Money. -- 6.4. Taxable Investments. -- 6.5. House--Purchase or Rent? -- 6.6. Mortgage Payoff Decision. -- 6.7. Taxes. -- 7 What Will I Do When I Retire? -- 7.1. Work Part-Time. -- 7.2. Travel. -- 7.3. Volunteer. -- 7.4. Recreation and Leisure. -- 7.5. Health and Self-Improvement. -- 8 Final Issues. -- 8.1. Before You Leave the Building. -- 8.2. Where to Live. -- 8.3. Sources of Income. -- 8.4. Taxes. -- 8.5. Rebalancing. -- 8.6. Heirs. -- Appendix A: Web Site URLs: Information, Online Calculators and Software. -- Appendix B: Fundamental Financial Equations. -- Appendix C: Longevity Table. -- Index. -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: A practical retirement planning resource for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians In 1995, Dr. Mike Golio, an electrical engineer, became seriously interested in planning for early retirement. In 2003, at the age of 49, he and his wife achieved their goal of financial independence and retired. Engineering Your Retirement is an outgrowth of his research. Whether retirement is imminent or many years off, this valuable guide's straightforward, analytical approach to financial independence answers the critical questions to achieving successful, comfortable, and meaningful retirement. Written specifically for professionals in the engineering, science, and math fields, Engineering Your Retirement examines such important questions as: * How much money will I need to retire? * How long will it take for me to accumulate it? * What types of post-retirement activities are available to technical professionals? Engineering Your Retirement discusses financial independence from the unique cultural view of the technical professional and features many charts, graphs, analytical tools, and equations to help present the financial nuts-and-bolts of retiring in a logical and analytical manner. It offers practical, firsthand advice from an industry expert on: * Effectively budgeting for investments * Planning for health insurance * Choosing a retirement community * Building up a cash/bond ladder * Considering inflation * Portfolio requirements * Investment allocations * Paying off a mortgage * And much more!.