Research Interests:
Infrastructure:
Electricity reform and restructuring; development of institutions and governance mechanisms for electricity and water infrastructure.
Political Economy of Natural Resources:
Common property resources; local institutions for management of groundwater.
Global Governance:
Innovative mechanisms for global governance; international climate change policy; negotiations on a global investment agreement; reform of international public financial institutions and development aid.

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Selected Published Works:

• Navroz K. Dubash. 2004."Electric Power Reform: Social and Environmental Issues". Encyclopedia of Energy. Volume 2 Elsevier Press: 255-266.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2004. "Water, Markets, and Embedded Institutions in Western India." In Richard Peet and Michael Watts(eds.) Liberation Ecologies:Environment, Development, Social Movements. London:Routledge.
• Albert H. Cho and Navroz K. Dubash. 2003."Will Investment Rules Shrink Policy Space for Sustainable Development? Evidence from the Electricity Sector", South Centre, Working Paper 16, December.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2003. "Revisiting Electricity Reform: The Case for a Sustainable Development Approach." Utilities Policy.
• Kevin Baumert, Jake Werksman and Navroz K. Dubash. 2003. "Will International Investment Rules Obstruct Climate Protection Policies? An Examination of the Clean Development Mechanism". International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 3(1): 59-86.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2002. Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in Gujarat. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2002. "The Politics of Electric Power Restructuring in Developing Countries" in Martha Harriss (ed.), Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment. New York: University Press of America.
• Navroz K. Dubash (ed.) 2002. Power Politics: Equity and Environment in Electricity Reform. Washington D.C.: World Resources Institute.
• Navroz K. Dubash, Mairi Dupar, Smitu Kothari and Tundu Lissu. 2002. "A Watershed in Global Governance: Executive Summary." Politics and the Life Sciences (Special Issue: Harrison Symposium on the World Commission on Dams) Vol. 21, No. 1 (March).
• Navroz K. Dubash, Mairi Dupar, Smitu Kothari and Tundu Lissu. 2001. A Watershed in Global Governance? An Independent Assessment of the World Commission on Dams. Washington D.C.: World Resources Institute.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2001. "The Public Benefits Agenda in Power Sector Reform." Energy for Sustainable Development. Vol. V, No. 2 (June), pp. 5-14.
• Navroz K. Dubash and Sudhir Chella Rajan. 2001."Power Politics: The Process of India’s Power Sector Reform."Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXVI No. 35, pp. 3367-3390.
• Navroz K. Dubash. 2000. "Ecologically and Socially Embedded Exchange: ‘Gujarat Model’ of Water Markets." Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXV No. 16, pp. 1376-1386.
• Seymour, Frances and Navroz K. Dubash. 2000. The Right Conditions: The World Bank, Structural Adjustment and Forest Policy Reform. Washington D.C.: World Resources Institute.
• Ganzi, John, Frances Seymour and Sandy Buffett with Navroz K. Dubash. 1998. Leverage for the Environment: A Guide to the Public Financial Services Industry. Washington DC: World Resources Institute.
• Dubash, Navroz K. 1994."Commoditizing Carbon: Social and Environmental Implications of Joint Implementation" in P. Ghosh and J. Puri (eds.). Joint Implementation of Climate Change Commitments: Opportunities and Apprehensions. New Delhi: Tata Energy Research Institute.
• Dubash, Navroz K. and Michael Oppenheimer. 1992. "Modifying the Mandates of Existing Institutions: Non-Governmental Organizations" in Irving Mintzer (ed.). Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Hajost, Scott A. and Navroz K. Dubash. 1990."Report of Institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations: Environmental Defense Fund." in G. Handl (ed.) Yearbook of International Environmental Law. London: Graham and Trotman.

  
  Current Research:

• Governance indicators for electricity;
• Rural electrification in India;
• Regulation and the development of a regulatory tradition in developing countries;
• Implications of a global investment regime for electricity investments;
• Global governance and the impact of civil society networks;