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Electricity crises in Zambia: Estimating the costs of unreliability at firm level

The cost of power outages to Zambia’s manufacturing firms

Working paper 17 Sep 2019 Firms

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Imaduddin Ahmed

Senior Economist, University College London

Michelle Baddeley

Honorary Professor, University College London

D'Maris Coffman

Professor, University College London

Jim Meikle

Professor, University College London

Musiliu Oseni

Honorary Research Associate, University College London

Graham Sianjase

Field Research Manager
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