This paper attempts to examine the role of environmental governance on foreign direct investment by testing the pollution haven hypothesis for 21 Indian states for the period 2002–2010. To test for the hypothesis, this study computes an abatement expenditure index adjusted for industrial...

This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between environmental quality and per capita NSDP (i.e., Environment Kuznets Curve, EKC) of 14 major Indian States in the light of their very high economic growth in the post-liberalisation period. The analysis involves first ranking the...

After two decades of attempts to deregulate the Indian power sector and bring in more competition, the question we are asking is: why has private investment not flooded in as expected? We analyze the problem using an economics of governance framework which suggests that various organizational...