Project-based market transformation in developing countries and international technology transfer: The case of the global environment facility and solar photovoltaics

Low-Carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 185-208

  Haum, Rüdiger ^a,b  

^a Ger Advsy Council on Global Change   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84906651997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203121481     Document Type: Chapter

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