This paper assesses how developing a part of Nepal’s hydropower potential results in stronger economic growth and significantly reduces poverty while delivering environmental benefits and climate change mitigation.
Assigning a monetary value for air quality reduction and associated health outcomes of electricity generation is both difficult and essential. This paper reviews the Impact Pathway Approach for valuing health costs of air pollution.
This paper estimates the opportunity cost of underpricing or subsidizing gas in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh today faces a different future than it did decades ago when bundant natural gas seemed to be the key to prosperity. This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to evaluate major energy policy issues facing Bangladesh.
This study unbundles and values electricity service attributes using a choice experiment study covering 2,083 households in Madhya Pradesh, India.
This study undertakes a contingent valuation survey using a stratified random sample of 2,083 households in rural Madhya Pradesh, India, with the objective of estimating the benefits of an improved electricity supply to rural households. Survey results clearly show that existing electricity services are very poor and rural households consider good quality uninterrupted power supply as a top development priority.
The Khulna Water Supply Project aims at improving the access to safe water through the piped network in Khulna City, the third largest city in Bangladesh with a population of approximately 1 million.
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.
Biofuels are receiving increased attention because they have the potential to enhance the energy security of energy-deficit countries while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They also offer opportunities for inclusive rural development. Prevailing administered prices do not provide adequate financial incentives to produce biodiesel in India, as this paper shows. In contrast to financial analysis, social cost-benefit analysis reveals that biodiesel production from jatropha and pongamia is economically viable.
Biodiesel expansion, when combined with energy efficiency improvements and food productivity increases, could provide India much better opportunities for enhanced energy security, food security, and climate change mitigation.
ADB and development partners have signed a collaboration agreement to help strengthen country safeguard systems in Asia and the Pacific. It reaffirms the partners’ joint commitment for working together to achieve this.
ADB and development partners have signed a collaboration agreement to help strengthen country safeguard systems in Asia and the Pacific. It reaffirms the partners’ joint commitment for working together to achieve this.
ADB has approved a $300 million loan to help India’s northeastern Assam state continue its drive to eliminate power sector inefficiencies that are hurting its consumers, its world-famous tea industry, and its environment.
ADB has approved a $350 million loan for power asset upgrades that will allow the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to meet booming consumer demand for power.