Failures & generic recommendations towards the sustainable management of renewable energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 2 of 2)
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Renewable energy (RE); Sustainable management; Developing countries; Project failure; RE recommendations; Sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
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