Abstract: This study has done a systematic analysis of shifts in production pattern of industries to understand environmental connotation associated with liberalisation. Pollution data is regressed on output data. Post liberalisation period (1991-2013) data is compared to that of pre liberalisation (1973-1991). We have found that there has been slight increase in the level of industrial air and water pollution load in post reform period whereas increase has been higher in case of toxic and metal pollution load. This shows that in post reform period, India has become more specialized in the production from polluting industries relative to less polluting industries.
Keywords: Environment, industrial pollution projection system, liberalisation, pollution, polluting industries
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