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With a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) criteria for sustainable , clean and affordable energy , it should be ideal for Bangladesh to consider its energy options. This will not only lead to much desirable mitigation of the country ’s energy famine but would also contribute favourably to its macroeconomic indicators. The phenomenal shift from traditional energy to relatively environment -friendly energy usage would help to maintain a harmony with the ecosystem, reducing the rate of global environmental degradation. However, to facilitate this transition, Bangladesh would require the government ’s stern involvement in the form of financing projects to develop the energy infrastructure. If this can be ensured, then Bangladesh , by all means, can attain its dream of probing in the elite panel of upper-middle-income countries by 2021.
This chapter is prepared from the doctoral thesis of Sakib Bin Amin and his class lectures on Energy Economics and Policy at North South University, Bangladesh.
An earlier version of this article was published on the Daily Asian Age on Monday, February 20, 2017.
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Amin, S.B., Rahman, S. (2019). Energy Options in Bangladesh: A Review. In: Energy Resources in Bangladesh. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02919-7_2
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