Expensive energy, poor infrastructure and increasing labour costs - known as "Custo Brasil" or the "Brazil Cost" - have weighed on growth, analysts say.
By contrast, one of the characteristics of the developing world is that people often have to leave energy-poor rural areas and travel to cities to find this economic opportunity.
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Rich-country governments should help money flow from the markets by subsidising the risk of investing in clean energy in poor countries: public money should be used to prompt larger sums of private capital.
Ambitious goals for new energy regimes have a poor performance record "energy independence" has been an unfulfilled presidential promise for decades.
Since the building was certified prior to the LEED v3 certification system was released, it will maintain its LEED certification despite its poor energy use record.
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The Safe Stoves project shows a virtuous circle in action, thanks to technology -- environmental protection, improved safety for women, access to clean energy for the poor, enhanced climate security.
More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
If we sit back and do nothing, natural energy will remain a poor resource.
There is a large funding gap in providing energy access for the poor which has not been properly addressed by existing financial mechanisms and institutions.
The key to sustainability, she argues, lies in helping local entrepreneurs create markets for the energy services that the poor actually need and are willing to pay for, rather than what distant bureaucrats think is appropriate.
The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.
We know there are ways to wean people off high energy foods and to convert poor eating habits but we need to avoid any sense of social engineering in case we get this wrong.
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The world's nations will have to be ranked on a sliding scale with the richest polluters expected to cut most and contribute most cash towards helping the poor get clean energy and adapt to climate change.
Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age, " this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.
Yet, many organizations have a poor understanding of their energy consumption and how to reduce it.
It's high time that the poor become central to energy policies and not just recipients or "project beneficiaries".
In fact, ideologically he is something of an old-time liberal himself (he devoted a great deal of energy to boosting the number of poor students at Harvard).
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While auto industry wages in Brazil have risen 125% in ten years, productivity has increased only 22% due to a lack of automation, poor training and high energy and steel costs.
Poor transportation, communication and energy supply were "killing this country, killing this region, " he remembers thinking.
However, the best reason to think that a happier energy future awaits the world's poor comes from the grass roots.
Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.
Kennedy, who heads Citizens Energy, said Chavez cared about the poor.
Rafael Coven, the adviser to the underlying index for PZD, noted that the poor performance of most renewable energy stocks in 2010 was a major reason why Cleantech Index-based funds (such as PZD) significantly outperformed their peers.
McLaren, one of only two teams still using the energy power-boost system, suffered a poor start to 2009.
Clean energy security, and more jobs for relatively poor people who live in undeveloped, unpopulated areas in Para state.
Concerns about the reliability of Soviet energy supplies are further exacerbated by the notoriously poor condition of the USSR's oil and gas distribution network.
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Duke Energy (DUK) is expected to report poor fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 with analysts expecting a 9.7% drop in earnings from a year ago.
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