This book identifies and investigates the determinants that influence investment
decision-making for conducting foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh's power sector.
This book is organized around six core themes. These are: Bangladesh's vision to become a
middle-income country by 2021 and have universal power for all an overview of the benefits and
costs of FDI from a host nation's perspective an outlook of Bangladesh's power sector starting
from the years 1994-2008 through 2011-2015 to 2016-2020 and beyond the key factors that
encourage foreign investors to conduct FDI in the Bangladeshi power sector subsumed under four
broad categories of investment prospects namely regulatory economic and financial political
and social the key barriers that deter FDI in the Bangladeshi power sector and policy
implications for long-term investment sustainability in the power sector. The main arguments
posited in this book are: regulatory aspects are the most important for firms when conducting
FDI in the power sector land acquisition is a perineal problem that continues to hamper the
development of large-scale power projects there is a need for a transparent and competitive
selection process to improve transparency and accountability in private power procurement and
more exploration of onshore and offshore gas fields with the extension of gas transmission
networks be enhanced that ensure a regional balance of primary energy supply (gas) for setting
up additional gas-based power plants in the country.
