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167000
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Concerns about climate change, energy security and energy productivity are driving countries to improve energy and thermal efficiency of their housing. Australia established a Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) in the mid-1990s to encourage improved energy performance, before regulating minimum energy standards in the 2000s. While minimum standards in Australia have improved, they fall short of requirements for a low carbon future. Resistance to new standards has been predicated on the argument that consumers will drive the market. Others argue that market failures result in lower than optimal house energy performance. There has been limited investigation of this in the Australian context. This paper analyses over 187,000 NatHERS certificates from 2016 to 2018 to determine the response to market desires and the regulatory environment. The research finds 81.7% of housing is designed only to meet minimum standards, and 98.5% falls below the economic and environmental optimum. This demonstrates significant market failure and indicates that building energy regulation is a powerful instrument for delivering improved performance outcomes. If governments are seeking a larger contribution from the housing sector to carbon abatement and other energy policies, systematically raising minimum building energy regulations is probably the most important and effective mechanism.
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ID:
183610
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In order to optimise the benefits of oil and gas resources, Local Content Regulations (LCRs) have escalated in the last 15 years among oil-rich economies. In Nigeria, the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act (NOGICDA) gives the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) the rights to drive policies and set targets for the growth of Nigerian Content (also known as local content) in the oil and gas industry. Despite the increased in-country engineering capacity observed as result of NOGICDA, the non-disclosure of basic details of contracts in the oil and gas industry creates difficulties in accessing local content contribution to Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Thus, a simple model based on in-country spends is proposed for the estimation of change in GDP as result of increased contracts to Nigerian companies. This proposed model is used to estimate the impact of Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN) spend on local contractors since 2010. The study is limited to SCiN since it has consistently published the total value of contract awarded to Nigerian companies since 2010. A yearly contribution of $5.6 billion to Nigeria’ GDP is estimated as a result the contracts awarded to Nigerian companies by SCiN.
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ID:
111547
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2012.
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Support for regional economic integration in Africa runs high amongst the continent's international development partners and African elites. However, its expression in European forms of economic integration is not appropriate to regional capacities and in some cases may do more harm than good. This lacuna is exacerbated by technical and theoretical analyses rooted either in economics or international relations literature. This article sets out to reconceptualise the foundations of African economic integration by reviewing key debates within each literature and comparing the results across disciplinary boundaries. Overall, it is concluded that a much more limited approach is required, one that prioritises trade facilitation and regulatory cooperation in areas related primarily to the conduct of business; underpinned by a security regime emphasizing the good governance agenda at the domestic level. Care should be taken to design the ensuing schemes in such a way as to avoid contributing to major implementation and capacity challenges in establishing viable and legitimate states. In doing so, the presence of regional leaders with relatively deep pockets - South Africa in the Southern African case - points to the imperative of building such limited regional economic arrangements around key states.
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ID:
151409
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Based primarily on archives from Hong Kong, the United Kingdom,
and the United States Information Service (USIS), this article uncovers
the trajectory of the Hong Kong fi lm political censorship system from
1947 to 1971 through interrogating interactions between the confi guration
of a series of regulations and misgivings about and treatments of
imported PRC, USIS, and Taiwan fi lms that had political references. I
examine colonial political censorship of imported films as a local
response to both Chinese politics (the CCP vs. the KMT) and Cold War
politics (the PRC vs. the United States-plus-Taiwan, the PRC vs. the
United Kingdom-plus-Hong Kong), on the one hand; and as a strategy
of cultural governance vis-Ã -vis the vulnerability of Hong Kong and the
control of the internal stability during the 1950s and 1960s, on the
other. I argue that the censorship system helped the colonial authorities
maintain a degree of cultural autonomy vis-Ã -vis both UK imperial
policy and the cinematic propaganda war between the PRC and the
United States-plus-Taiwan in Hong Kong during this turbulent period.
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ID:
115187
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2012.
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In Energy Policy, 38 (7) 3297-3308, Dusonchet and Telaretti contribute a significant deal to the field of PV comparative policy analysis in the EU by addressing the impact of the PV regulatory framework on the investment decisions of the sector-as determined by net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) indices-in seventeen Western EU countries. As a necessary first step, the authors bring off a concise and straightforward analysis of the different legal frameworks ruling solar PVS implementation in those countries.
In the specific case of Spain we have identified some imprecision that could lead to misunderstandings about the role and impact of the PV legal framework on the massive expansion of the sector, especially during the so-called "Spanish PV Boom".
This note is intended to add on the authors' primary and challenging effort to provide a systematic analysis of the Spanish PV sector by contextualizing this period of hype and, on the basis of this analysis, contribute our own understanding about how the complexity and uncertainties generated by the successive frameworks might have triggered such a frenzied response by the market.
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ID:
141466
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Control of the female body is a key component of both the formation of Muslim identities and the control of Muslim communities in European countries. I will argue that the regulation of the clothing worn by Muslim women, both the restriction of its use (which occurs mainly in non-Muslim countries) and the requirement to wear a particular item, share the same goal: the control of women’s bodies. In this respect, I will consider both the legal regulations that require women to wear the so-called ‘Muslim’ clothing and those that restrict it as a way of disciplining the population, and will focus on the control of women as a privileged form of political control.
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ID:
138239
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015.
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xi, 220p.Hbk
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9780199946143
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 058199 | 342.0858/RIC 058199 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
084265
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ID:
123865
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2013.
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This article estimates bank-specific profit efficiency of three broad ownership groups of Indian banks during the period 1995-96 to 2011-12, using the stochastic frontier methodology. Results reveal that during the post-liberalisation period, public sector banks in India are the best performers in terms of estimated profit efficiency. Further, foreign banks operating in India record higher profit efficiency levels compared to domestic private banks. The introduction of prudential regulations, such as capital adequacy ratios, has had a significant positive impact on the profit efficiency of Indian banks, while loan defaults adversely affect their profit efficiency. Market power does not necessarily lead to an increase in profit efficiency, while bank mergers have had a significant positive effect. Contrary to the expectation that the Indian banking system is highly resilient and sufficiently robust to cope with external shocks, the results reveal that the ongoing global financial crisis has had a significant adverse effect on the profit efficiency of Indian banks.
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ID:
130041
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2014.
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The use of outer space continues to grow and is becoming more congested, competitive, and contested. This results in an increased need to ensure its protection. Existing international laws do not adequately regulate debris-causing space weapons and only provide restrictions for weapons of mass destruction. This article argues that there is a valid need to regulate space weapons, given the destabilizing effects of space weapons and the overall threat to the space environment. The article culminates with recommended courses of action for how to regulate space weapons.
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101215
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ID:
086510
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2009.
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Notice of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China of July30, 2002. The Regulations on a Number of Issues in the Hearing of Enterprise Bankruptcy Cases of the Supreme People's Courts was passed at Meeting No.1232 of the Judicial Commitee of the Supreme People's on July 18 2002. It is now being announced and goes into effect as of September 2002.
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