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An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riotsBetween 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots...
Fuel subsidies Riots protestBlog
From offshore oil to offshore finance: How tax havens facilitate corruption in the extractive industriesIn many countries, news of an oil discovery or the award of an exploration license is rarely greeted with enthusiasm by the general public...
Energy Corruption Tax avoidanceWorking Paper
An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riotsBetween 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots...
Fuel subsidies Riots protestWorking Paper
Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actionsThis second paper on hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting builds on our first, which evaluated the economic and social cost (SCAR) of wasted natural gas...
Energy transition Gas HealthWorking Paper
Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: evaluation of the issuesAtmospheric emissions urgently need to reduce for natural gas to fulfill its potential role in the energy transition to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change...
Energy transition Gas HealthWorking Paper
The energy transition in Asia: The role of liquefied natural gas and implications for East African producersThis study provides an overview of the use of natural gas and liquefied natural gas in Asia, both historic, current, and with an outlook for the future...
Energy Energy utilities FuelWorking Paper
The energy transition in Asia: Country priorities, fuel types, and energy decisionsThis paper provides an overview of the energy transition in Asia. It sets out the underlying drivers and how these set energy transition priorities in China, India, and South East Asia...
Renewable resources Energy Energy utilitiesIn the media
An energy expert from SA-TIED appears on SABC's The Bottom Line
South Africa Energy Climate change Working Paper
Climate change and the extractives sectorThe extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...
Extractives Oil Natural gasNews
New collaborative programme focusing on economic transformation and inequality launched with South African government and other regional organizations
Structural economic transformation Economic inequality Employment and Industry 
Book
The Political Economy of Clean Energy TransitionsThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Energy Development Climate changeWorking Paper
Energy system and economy-wide implications of a rapid transition to decarbonized energy in South AfricaDeveloped as well as developing countries will have to increase their ambition relative to their stated Nationally Determined Contributions to limit global temperature increases to 2°C above pre-industrial levels...
Energy Climate policy Welfare