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Choosing the Right Mix: Market, State, and Institutions for Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Growth

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dc.contributor.author Gupta, Anil K. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:10:17Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:10:17Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-06-30 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-06-30 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3901
dc.description.abstract "Efficiency, Growth, and Exports are the main items on nation's economic agenda. There is some concern (perhaps not adequate) for developing Safety Nets for people hurt/ left out by growth. Unfortunately environmental implications of industrial restructuring have not been given adequate attention. We present a framework to identify the appropriate policy response to make growth environmentally sustainable. "We see no contradiction between growth and environment sustainability. There is a broad degree of consensus that the size of the cake needs to be expanded. The issue therefore is not to have growth or not. The issue is what kind of growth and what pace of growth. Environmental implications are contingent on the pace and kind of growth. Since environment sustainability and economic growth reinforce each other, we need to make environment as an explicit decision variable in the macro economic policy. "Three policy measures i.e. market mechanism, state intervention, and institutional innovations can be used to enable firms to internalize externalities. We need to identify various mix of three options to deal with various kinds of externalities. "The best policy response is one that internalizes externalities at lowest transaction cost. In Section one we present a typology of externalities. In Section two we relate the type of externality with the stage and causes of industrial growth. Externalities can arise not only at the firm stage (input and transformation) but also at the consumer stage (consumption and disposal). Growth at production can be due to increase in scale of operation, new technology , and increase in number of firms. Growth in consumption can be due to increase in per capita consumption, introduction of new products and new consumers entering the market. ln Section Three we speculate upon the feasible policy choice given a mix of externalities, associated uncertainties and the measurability of the impact of the uncertainties." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries W.P. no. 1066 en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject environment en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.subject economic growth en_US
dc.subject industry en_US
dc.title Choosing the Right Mix: Market, State, and Institutions for Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Growth en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India en_US
dc.coverage.country India
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US


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