Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 73-83Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.07.046
Keywords
Multilateral energy cooperation; South Asia; Energy politics; Regional Energy Institutions; Transnational pipelines; Regional hydroelectric projects
Funding
- Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Australia
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Political challenges are arguably the biggest constraint to the realization of regional energy projects in South Asia, an issue that has impeded cooperation despite the existence of substantial economic incentives. Although challenges such as technical difficulties, financial constraints and bureaucratic inefficiency are important, they are essentially subsidiary issues, the solutions to which are held hostage by often mentioned but rarely examined political impediments. While existing accounts of political obstacles in contemporary literature are relatively abstract, this paper draws on interviews with government officials, academics, representatives of regional institutions and officials of multilateral development banks in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and India to get insights into their experience of possibilities for and limitations to energy cooperation. By synthesizing the findings of interviews with relevant literature, this paper undertakes a systematic analysis of the political challenges to regional energy projects and provides a number of policy recommendations to overcome these impediments. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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