were to scale up their inspections. In this paper, extensive firm-level data from India are used to compare the compliance … with air and water pollution. Finally, the paper examines whether environmental monitoring through inspections leads to …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …