Professor

Email: rita[at]nipfp.org.in

Research Interests: Environmental and natural resource economics, environment and sustainable development, climate change issues, applied microeconomics, poverty and environment.

Selected Published Works:

• CETPs and Pollution Control in Small Scale Industry in India, International Journal of Environmental Studies (forthcoming).
• Looking Beyond I & M in reducing Pollution from In-use Vehicles, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies.
• Environmental Taxes on Polluting Inputs and Outputs, Academic Foundation,co-authored(forthcoming).
• Pricing Coal Ash for Environmental Protection, The Journal of Energy and Development, Volume 30(2), (2005) (co-authored with Raja J Chelliah and U Sankar).
• Industrial Pollution Control in India: Issues in Design and Enforcement of Regulation, in Sustainable Development: Bridging the Research/Policy Gaps in Southern Contexts, ed. Saba Gul Khattak, (2005), Oxford University Press.
• Estimating Pollution Inventories in India: Implications for using Effluent Charge Vs Regulation, Journal of Development Studies, Volume 41(1), (2005).
• Economic Policy Options for Controlling Vehicular Air Pollution, Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 9(1), 2004.
• Comparing the Cost Effectiveness of Using a Market Based Policy Instrument such as Tradable Permits- Versus Regulation: the Case Study of an Integrated Steel Plant in India, paper presented at Second International Congress of EDE in September 2000, at the Royal Swedish Academy, Sweden, and Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 9(1), 2004.
• Incentive System for Replacing Old Vehicles: Its Feasibility and Adequacy of Incentives, in Report of the Expert Committee on Auto Fuel Policy in India, Government of India, 2002.
• New Suggested Structure of Vehicle Road Tax Referring to Progressivity in Road Tax Linked with Age of Vehicles, in Report of the Expert Committee on Auto Fuel Policy in India, Government of India, 2002.
• Fiscal Instruments for Pollution Abatement: A Study of Distilleries in India, co-authored, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vol. 4 (2), 2001.
• Pollution Tax for Pollution Abatement - a Case Study of Sugar Industry, Econometric Studies of Economic Reforms in India ed. V.V.N Somayajulu, Academic Foundation, 2000.
• Pricing Industrial Pollution: A Case Study of India", Indian Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2000.

Current Research: Climate change issues, valuation of cost of pollution, taxes on polluting inputs and outputs, and resource tax on automobiles.