Solar off-grid markets in Africa: Recent dynamics and the role of branded products
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Keywords
rural electrification; energy access; energy poverty; technology adoption;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2016-07-23 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2016-07-23 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2016-07-23 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2016-07-23 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2016-07-23 (Regulation)
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