This paper conducts a comprehensive review of the literature published between 1989 and
2015 on infrastructure and related issues. The articles are classified and presented on the …

The purpose of this study is to reveal relations between access to electricity and
advancement in a socio-economic condition in rural areas of developing countries …

Over the last fifteen years the world's largest developing countries have initiated market
reform in their electric power sectors from generation to distribution. This book evaluates the …

Numerous renewable and small-scale distributed generation (DG) technologies have now
progressed to the stage where their technical feasibility has been proven and full-scale …

India's power sector has grown tremendously since Independence in 1947, with installed
capacity rising 8% annually to more than 107,000 MW by 2003. Despite this eighty-fold …

It is often argued that the true benefits of water resource development in international river
basins are undermined by a lack of consideration of interdependence in water resource …

Although India has made significant progress towards the sustainable development goal on
energy (SDG 7), further policy innovations are essential for closing the gap, addressing …

The aim of this article is to analyze the potential for synergies between climate policies and
development in a case study on India focusing on the power sector sub-optimalities. To do …

The success of electricity reforms in India will depend critically upon the existence of some
sort of restraining or disciplining mechanism in the sector, in the absence of which current …

A transition to sustainable energy is crucial for averting dangerous climate change and
realizing sustainable development. Achievement of this objective will require not only …