Harmonizing Electricity Laws In South Asia

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292579685

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Harmonizing Electricity Laws in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Electricity shortages in South Asia are adversely impacting the region's socioeconomic development. Energy trade is seen as a solution to this challenge. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Framework Agreement for Energy Cooperation (Electricity) is a key step in realizing regional trade in energy. To support implementation of the framework agreement, ADB and SAARC in Law are working to improve legal and regulatory harmonization in the energy sector. This report identifies the legal, regulatory, technical, and commercial requirements for energy trade, and what each country in South Asia needs to do to make the framework agreement a reality. The recommendations, summarized in tables, provide an easy reference for policy makers and energy stakeholders in the region.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9292579673

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Harmonizing Electricity Laws in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

South Asia, home to nearly one-sixth of the global population, is one of the poorest regions in the world. Access to electricity in the region is low and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries face acute electricity shortages, adversely impacting their socioeconomic development. Yet the region is endowed with hydropower potential, coal reserves, natural gas reserves, large renewable energy resources, and petroleum reserves. These can be harnessed to become key drivers of the region's growth-and energy trade has the potential to capitalize on this asset. This report culminates the work of ADB and SAARCLAW on regional energy trade. It identifies the legal, regulatory, technical, and commercial requirements for energy trade; and what each country needs to do to make the framework agreement a reality. The recommendations provide an easy reference for policy makers and energy stakeholders in the region. It is hoped that this report's recommendations, derived from the work of national consultants and regional and international experts, will contribute to the fulfillment of the framework agreement.

Author : Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,Dayong Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811967788

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The Handbook of Energy Policy by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,Dayong Zhang Pdf

The Handbook of Energy Policy is a unique and novel reference for addressing the policy implications of energy demand and supply from their economic, political, social, planning, and environmental aspects. The Handbook of Energy Policy provides several studies from the global, regional, national, or local perspectives that are of wider policy significance. Studies provided in this book are of interest to the international organizations, governments, public and private sector entities, local communities, universities, research institutions, and other non-governmental organizations. Topics covered in the Handbook of Energy Policy are including energy security, energy poverty, energy finance, energy pricing, energy and environment, energy and sustainability, energy and growth, energy efficiency, energy trade, technological innovation and energy, energy transition, energy nexus studies, economics, and policy of fossil fuels, economics, and policy of renewable and green energies. The policy recommendations provided in all chapters are supported by a rigorous empirical or theoretical analysis.

Author : Narendra N. Dalei,Anshuman Gupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811950612

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Economics and Policy of Energy and Environmental Sustainability by Narendra N. Dalei,Anshuman Gupta Pdf

This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment. An increase in economic activity is correlated with a higher level of energy consumption, which in turn leads to an increase in environmental pollution. Due to the influence of greenhouse gases, the higher the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature, which ultimately leads to climate change. Under these imminent dangers, the role of economic and energy efficiency policies becomes important for ecological sustainability. The present policies, however, in various instances, have failed to address these issues. Hence, this book embarks not only to suggest modifications to improve the efficacy of the current policies but also to recommend to the policymakers, new and more effective policies for their respective countries. The book is bifurcated into two sections: The Economics and Policy of Sustainable Energy section discusses renewable energy policy responses to observed Impact of climate change using DPSIR Framework; the energy utilization strategies for transportation and commercial activities of Charland Bangladesh; the relationship of market globalization with the Indian energy sector; the socioecological effects of globalization from an energy perspective brought to a local standpoint; the seasonal disaster-induced energy consumption strategies of the char-dwellers of Bangladesh with respect to their domestic chores and agricultural activities; trends in GDP growth and energy usage in India; cross-border trade of electricity; and the events that the oil and gas industry has already faced and possible strategies it can adopt to overcome the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Economics and Policy of Environmental Sustainability section analyses topics such as the role of hyper-globalization in spreading the pandemic across countries as threat to human ecology; the current scenario of environmental consequences, and future prospects of plastic pollution; the surface air temperature anomalies over selected countries of Africa; the impaired roles of the female gender in community natural resource exploitation in Ndop; the operational expansion strategies for garnering better output in terms of livelihood and conservation; opportunity for environmental justice and rethinking global community; linking indigenous traditional knowledge and sustainable development goals in the North-Western Himalayas; and recommendations to manage dry forest carbon stock. This book is a rich resource for policymakers, guiding them through untraveled pathways. Moreover, it is an extremely helpful resource for researchers, practitioners, industry professionals as well as students in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development with flavour of economics and policy.

Author : Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Priyantha D. C. Wijayatunga,Herath Gunatilake,P. N. Fernando
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290926313

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Energy Trade in South Asia by Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Priyantha D. C. Wijayatunga,Herath Gunatilake,P. N. Fernando Pdf

The South Asia Regional Energy Study was completed as an important component of the technical assistance project Preparing the Energy Sector Dialogue and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Energy Center Capacity Development. It involved examining regional energy trade opportunities among all the member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The study provides interventions to improve regional energy cooperation in different timescales, including specific infrastructure projects which can be implemented during these periods.

Author : ADBI
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784899740483

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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia by ADBI Pdf

This report analyzes how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process. It examines major developments in South Asian–Southeast Asian trade and investment, economic cooperation, the role of economic corridors, and regional cooperation initiatives. In particular, it identifies significant opportunities for strengthening these integration efforts as a result of the recent opening up of Myanmar in political, economic, and financial terms. This is particularly the case for land-based transportation—highways and railroads—and energy trading. The report’s focus is on connectivity in a broad sense, covering both hardware and software, including investment in infrastructure, energy trading, trade facilitation, investment financing, and support for national and regional policies.

Author : Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004474345

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Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia by Smith Pdf

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210605700

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Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Energy in Asia and the Pacific by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

This publication is the theme study for the 73rd session of Commission to be held in May 2017. The main purpose of the publication is to call on policymakers in Asia and the Pacific for urgent actions to transition national energy sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly Goal 7. The energy sector transition is the only way to address the sizeable energy deficit which impede progress in energy access in a number of member countries. It will also address gaps between current commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change and lack of coherent energy strategic and policy frameworks and actions held back progress of SDG7.

Author : Taghizadeh-hesary Farhad,Yoshino Naoyuki,Chang Youngho,Rillo Aladdin
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811204227

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Achieving Energy Security In Asia: Diversification, Integration And Policy Implications by Taghizadeh-hesary Farhad,Yoshino Naoyuki,Chang Youngho,Rillo Aladdin Pdf

This book presents a critical review of the status of energy security in Asia and suggests how a country or a region collectively can achieve energy security in two broad aspects. First, it analyzes how regional cooperation and energy trade can enhance energy security in the region. Second, it reviews how energy security can be ensured in national and regional general contexts. From the reviews and analyses, this book asserts that diversification and integration are key to ensuring energy security. It presents policy implications for enhancing energy security, especially in resource-rich as well as resource-poor developing countries in Asia.

Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay,André Torre,Paulo Casaca,Tomaz Dentinho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319567471

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Regional Cooperation in South Asia by Sumana Bandyopadhyay,André Torre,Paulo Casaca,Tomaz Dentinho Pdf

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia. In light of the ongoing globalization process, the contributors investigate how socio-economic developments are changing the spatial organization of production as well as the profile of cities and landscapes, are stimulating the creation of maritime, terrestrial and aerial channels, and are putting increasing pressures on natural and environmental resources. The book is divided into four parts: The first part analyses the increasing intensity of regional trade, migration and investment flows; the second focuses on channels and adapted spaces. The third part addresses sustainability and natural resources, while the fourth highlights institutional issues.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292610395

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Human Capital Development in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Human capital is an important factor for economic growth in South Asia. Between 1981 and 2010, human capital contributed about 22% of annual gross domestic product per worker growth in India. During the same period, it contributed around 21% in Bangladesh, and 16% in Sri Lanka. However, education and skills remain the binding constraint. Raising the quality of education and skills in South Asia's workforce can play a critical role in catching up to the level of development of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and other successful Southeast Asian economies. This study reviews the development of human capital in South Asia and analyzes contributing factors to human development including policies and strategies that countries in South Asia follow.

Author : Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, South Asian
ISBN : 9780870999925

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The Art of South and Southeast Asia by Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts Pdf

Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.

Author : P. Obeng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137320766

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Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: by P. Obeng Pdf

This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.

Author : Savitri Goonesekere
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0761997962

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Violence, Law and Women's Rights in South Asia by Savitri Goonesekere Pdf

This very insightful volume critically analyses the law and law enforcement in three South Asian countries India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka s in order to assess the response of the criminal justice system to violence against women. The contributors assert that the gap between reality and the practice of laws in these countries is unfortunately very wide and women who are victims of violence are further victimised by discriminatory laws, the apathy of the judicial system, and the systematic manipulation of legal provisions. They explore the opportunities to change the legal systems and make them more responsive to women s human right to justice and freedom from violence.

Author : Livia Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317607298

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Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and Diasporas by Livia Holden Pdf

Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and the Diasporas contributes to the already heated debate about legal pluralism and the ontology of law by shifting the attention toward the relationship between what is treated as law and its impact on governance at the fora of dispute resolution. This book addresses sensitive issues such as gender rights and alternative dispute resolution in India, Hindu and Muslim personal laws in South Asia and in Europe, cross-border white violence, the change to Islamic legal traditions under Western domination, women’s inheritance in Pakistan and in the disputed territory of Gilgit Baltistan, indigenous rights and resistance at the India-Bangladesh border, and customary laws of nomadic groups in India. The authors deploy a variety of views that point at the pros and cons of legal pluralism and also integrates its opponents. They show how constructions of identity, religion, and power have historically informed the conceptualisation of secularism which may be an ideal, sometimes able to provide for perceptions of accountable governance, but also generating dividing worldviews. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Official Law.