Assessment of long-term sustainable end-use energy demand in RomaniaFootnote^*

* An earlier version of this paper has been published as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (Malla and Timilsina Citation2016), which is freely available to download at http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/982171467993734307/pdf/WPS7697.pdf.

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