Environmental Impact of India’s Trade Liberalization

Shreyasi Jha and Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

No 331181, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: India's liberalization program of 1991 reduced trade barriers and removed investment restrictions across industries. Using a unique industry level dataset aggregated at the all-India level for all manufacturing industries, we compare the pre and post-liberalization periods to examine if India's domestic production and exports showed a greater increase in dirty industries relative to cleaner ones. We also examine whether there has been a greater inflow of FDI into pollution intensive sectors in the post-liberalization period. Our findings indicate that exports and FDI grew in the more polluting sectors relative to the less polluting sectors in the post-liberalization period.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2004
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