Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect.
Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments – shortages of capital, skills, and governance capacity – make most of the green options relatively expensive, while its abundance of hydro-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power shortages m...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2012
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