India accounts for a third of the world’s population without access to electricity and about 40% of those without access to modern energy. Such a situation exists despite several initiatives and policies to support poor households. Alarmed by the gravity of the situation, the government has recently announced an ambitious programme of rural electrification. This paper looks into the energy acce...

2. We now consider a variation of the coordination game we discussed in class. A large, that is a continuum, population with unit mass (so you can index player i 2 [0; 1]), must choose an action, "invest" or "not invest". There is a cost y to investing and assume 0 < y < 1. There is a bene…t 1 of investing (investment "succeeds") if at least proportion 1 of the population invests (i.e., at most...

A replication and analysis of the Artificial Anasazi model is presented. It is shown that the success of replicating historical data is based on two parameters that adjust the carrying capacity of the Long House Valley. Compared to population estimates equal to the carrying capacity the specific agent behavior contributes only a modest improvement of the model to fit the archaeological records....

In Table 1 below, we explore the distribution of health spending for a given population. Here we array the population in deciles, from deciles of individuals with the lowest health spending per capita to deciles of individuals with the highest per-capita health spending. These deciles are shown on the leftmost column of Table 1. Individuals in the 9 and 10 deciles represent the presumably sicke...

How might mankind enjoy the fruits of an advanced civilization without endangering the viability of planet Earth for future generations? That is the fundamental challenge that we confront in the 21st century. In a time when the comforts and pleasures that can be derived from the products of modern technology are accessible for a significant portion of the world’s population, how can we manufact...

The Participative Budget consists of a process in which citizens can directly participate in decision-making and regulation of public budget spending. The experience of the City of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) with the Participative Budget is a consolidated e-democratic process in the government and, most importantly, for the population. By exploring techniques provided by Information and Communicat...

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Dispersal of species to find a more favorable habitat is important in population dynamics. Dispersal rates evolve in response to the relative success of different dispersal strategies. In a simplified deterministic treatment [J. Dockery, V. Hutson, K. Mischaikow, and M. Pernarowski, J. Math. Biol. 37, 61 (1998)] of two species which differ only in their dispersal rates the slow species always d...