pollution control because they typically face weak monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. The findings of the … authors, however, indicate that the inability of formal institutions to control pollution through fines and penalties may not … be as serious an impediment to pollution control as is generally argued. Environmental regulators in developing countries …

pollution control because they typically face weak monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. The findings of the … authors, however, indicate that the inability of formal institutions to control pollution through fines and penalties may not … be as serious an impediment to pollution control as is generally argued. Environmental regulators in developing countries …

the potential impact of pollution charges and citizens' complaints, on the environmental performance of polluters in China … impact on firms' environmental performance. · Pollution charges do not have a statistically significant effect on firms …' performance - although the lack of variation in pollution charges in Zhenjiang precludes effectively capturing their impact …