Water pollution abatement cost function: Methodological issues and an application to small-scale factories in an industrial estate in India

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 103-122

  Goldar, Bishwanath ^a   Misra, Smita ^b   Mukherji, Badal ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

^b WORLD BANK   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Abatement cost function; Pollution load reduction; Water pollution abatement activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347240920     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X01000067     Document Type: Article

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