China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … other costs and reduce well-being. The 12th Five Year Plan aims at further reducing pollution and at other environmental …

This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and … other. In practice, however, most countries have relied more on taxes than on permits to control pollution. The analysis …

Deals with the linkages among growth, employment and environmental pollution or degradation, by analysing the national …

This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the … challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other policies which are aimed …