Power It Up : Strengthening the Electricity Sector to Improve Efficiency and Support Economic Activity /

Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how policy...

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Autor Principal: Di Bella, Gabriel
Outros autores: Grigoli, Francesco
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/085
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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