Regulation by contract: A new way to privatize electricity distribution?

World Bank Working Paper

Volumn , Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1-88

  Bakovic, Tonci ^a   Tenenbaum, Bernard ^a   Woolf, Fiona ^a  

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