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As Green Delhi Turns Grey

Vol. 50, Issue No. 19, 09 May, 2015
Discussion
Kasturi Das, Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
/*--> */ The joint study by economists from the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Yale (Michael Greenstone et al, “Lower Pollution, Longer Lives: Life Expectancy Gains if India Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution,” EPW, 21 February 2015) has reignited the debate on the issue of unsustainable air...

Regulating Off-grid Electricity Delivery

Vol. 50, Issue No. 10, 07 Mar, 2015
Special Articles
Debajit Palit, Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
Given the increasingly prominent role and scope for off-grid solutions in complementing grid-based electrification in India, especially to electrify habitations where grid electricity is yet to reach, it would be crucial to set up appropriate regulatory arrangements for the scaling up of off-grid interventions in India. In view of this, the paper attempts to analyse the role of possible regulation in the off-grid electrification sector and explores the type of regulatory incentive structures that could be put in place in order to allow the off-grid sector to do well.

OPEC's Price-Making Power

Vol. 43, Issue No. 46, 15 Nov, 2008
Commentary
Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries is a dominant cartel consisting of producers with large reserves and it has always exercised its price-making power in the crude oil market. However, in the past few years, OPEC has been claiming that it has lost its power to alter crude oil prices. The article explores whether OPEC's claim is correct.
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