Climate change does not yet feature prominently within the environmental or economic policy agendas of developing countries. Yet evidence shows that some of the most adverse effects of climate change will be in developing countries, where populations are most vulnerable and least likely to...

In order to make a realistic assessment of the energy alternatives for the developing world, the present conditions of the developing region, consisting of Africa and Asia (excluding South Africa, Japan and China), are studied first. Highlights include: low commercial energy consumption (0.2...

At present, energy and fertilizer requirements of many of the developing countries are largely met by locally available, non-commercial sources, such as firewood and farm wastes. Extensive use of firewood is one of the factors that can lead to deforestation. When organic farm wastes are burnt,...

In this paper, long-run structural relationships of coal demand with price and income variables have been estimated for the four major coal consuming sectors in India using annual time series data from 1970–1995. Some of the recent developments in multivariate dynamic econometric time series...

This paper focuses on the present use of energy in the developing countries in order to estimate the energy required for subsistence-level activities and to see how much surplus is available for economically productive activities, taking into account both commercial and non-commercial (firewood,...

This paper provides results of a survey on DSM programs for the high-tension industries of Maharashtra. Technical potentials, costs, savings and the need for financial mechanism are covered. The types of programs industries prefer and needed incentives, extent of participation, agencies suitable...

A brief review of the Indian transport sector in the past few decades is provided in this article. It is shown that the period has witnessed a gradual transformation from rail-dominated transport to road-dominated transport. Infrastructure bottlenecks such as lack of roads and railways network...