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Energy Pricing Policy Framework and Experience in Developing Countries

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Today’s societies require increasing amounts of energy for domestic, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and transport uses. These energy needs are met by the commercial energy sources including the short-term, depletable fossil fuel supplies — petroleum, coal, and natural gas — as well as the long term, renewable sources — hydroelectric, biomass, solar, geothermal, wind, and tidal power (Munasinghe and Schramm, 1983).

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  1. Energy and Industrialization Project, Resource Systems Institute, East-West Center, USA

    Corazón Morales Siddayao (Research Coordinator, Affiliate Professor) (Research Coordinator, Affiliate Professor)

  2. Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, 96848, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Corazón Morales Siddayao (Research Coordinator, Affiliate Professor) (Research Coordinator, Affiliate Professor)

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Munasinghe, M. (1985). Energy Pricing Policy Framework and Experience in Developing Countries. In: Siddayao, C.M. (eds) Criteria for Energy Pricing Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9810-3_1

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