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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Collier, P, Venables, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: CSAE (University of Oxford) 2012