Informing the Financing of Universal Energy Access: An Assessment of Current Financial Flows

Electricity Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 57-82

  Bazilian, Morgan ^a   Nussbaumer, Patrick ^a   Gualberti, Giorgio ^b   Haites, Erik ^c   Levi, Michael ^g   Siegel, Judy ^d   Kammen, Daniel M ^e   Fenhann, Joergen ^f  

^a UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c Margaree Consultants Inc   (Canada)

^d The Energy andb Security Group   (United States)

^e WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCE;

'CURRENT; DISTRIBUTION SECTOR; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY AND GAS; ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY ACCESS; ENERGY POVERTIES; FINANCIAL FLOWS; GAS DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 80052265748     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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