Political Economy of Environmental Clearance in India

• In Event: Studies of Mitigation in South Asia

Brief Overview

This paper uses a novel dataset on environmental clearance permits at the sub-national level for all industrial nd infrastructure projects in India since 2014 to examine the political and electoral determinants of environmental regulation.

Authors

• Anustubh Agnihotri, Ashoka University

• Pranav Gupta, University of California-Berkeley