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The Hard Choices that Asia Must Make

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A remarkable transformation that happened in the energy sector in very recent times is the declining world fossil-fuel prices, which may continue for some more time, with the emergence of increasing sources of shale gas and tight oil in North America.

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    SAARC—South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation; ASEAN—Association of Southeast Asian Nations; CAREC—Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation.

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  1. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Kaliappa Kalirajan

  2. Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Venkatachalam Anbumozhi & Fukunari Kimura

  3. Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Fukunari Kimura

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  1. Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia

    Venkatachalam Anbumozhi

  2. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Kaliappa Kalirajan

  3. Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Fukunari Kimura

  4. Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

    Xianbin Yao

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Kalirajan, K., Anbumozhi, V., Kimura, F. (2016). The Hard Choices that Asia Must Make. In: Anbumozhi, V., Kalirajan, K., Kimura, F., Yao, X. (eds) Investing on Low-Carbon Energy Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0761-3_16

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