Trade Liberalisation Economic Growth and Environmental Externalities - Hansa Jain Gebunden

The book examines the trade liberalization measures which were initiated in India during 1991 and which focused on manufacturing industries. This industry was considered because of its strong inter-sectoral links and its capacity to stimulate the growth of other sectors. The resulting liberal trade policies involving a reduction in trade barriers and inflows of FDI capital and technologies were adopted to increase the manufacturing output. However these measures were most beneficial to those industries whose products have greater demand in developed countries. Against this backdrop the b ook breaks down the overall effect of trade-induced manufacturing growth into scale composition and technique effects to discuss the impact on environmental externality. In addition to manufacturing activity it also investigates the effect of other factors that improve with economic growth and examines the extent to which India's trade-led economic growth allows production activitiesto move to cleaner technologies and whether India has achieved its economic growth by specializing in pollution-intensive (low technology) industries. The book also estimates the impact of these environmental externalities on society's wellbeing.