Exploring the Impact of Energy Sources on Production, Inequality and Poverty in Simultaneous Equations Models for South Africa

African Development Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-351

  Ngepah, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY USE; INCOME; NUMERICAL MODEL; POVERTY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80052584171     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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