market. Air pollution fell substantially during 1999, the year in which both electricity restructuring and new environmental … pollution reductions. The remaining third can be attributed to firms exercising market power …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly …

production within these goods. Using Chinese official environmental data on air and water pollution, and official trade data, we … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between … standard model of the pollution intensity of trade, we develop a model that explicitly introduces production fragmentation into …

The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100 … to the dam from influential NGOs, there is no systematic empirical study of its effects on the long-term wellbeing of the … ousted families. Our study investigates: Are resettled oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam project better off in 2017 …

dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …