17 research outputs found
Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective
Get PDFThe environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment is still to be explored totally. It is often argued that investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to outsource their pollution-intensive production where the expected cost of pollution abatement is significantly less. This gave birth to the much debated idea of 'pollution havens', parallel to low-wage havens. Developing countries are more vulnerable to such cases since the environmental legislation and monitoring is not rigorous over there. Again, many have debated that such 'pollution havens' does not typically exist or at the best, transient in nature. Over the last decade, as a result of its policy towards opening up of the economy to the global markets, the extent of multinational activities and their share in trade and industrial production have risen steadily in India. Viewing this development, this paper primarily attempt to show the very existence of such a pollution haven in Indian scenario, analysing time series data for industrial production and international trade of identified pollution intensive industries in the country. Then it argues that, even if of transient nature, the phasing out of such a pollution haven regime is typically dependent upon the active institutional intervention. One important factor, this paper identifies, is of making of state-of-the-art knowledge base of impact analysis and alternative production possibilities that help design prudent environmental policy regime. Also it searches for the right kind of institutional interface at the international, national and industry level; and endeavours to find the implications thereof.FDI, Environment, Technology Transfer, Developing Country
Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence
No full textPalestinians face an ongoing Nakba along with the erasure of their universities. Prompted by the escalation of violence in the region, this Point of Departure (PoD) explores criticality as refusal–refusal of silence, complicity and collaboration with oppressive systems such as apartheid, settler colonialism, and racism. We draw on Malkani’s ([2024]. Racial justice and the limits of law. Bristol: Policy Press) four principles for anti-racist lawyering–reflection, creativity, collaboration, and accountability–as a framework for recognising and resisting these structures within and beyond higher education. Building on this, we propose counterstories in teaching as pedagogical tools that can generate discomfort within learning spaces and disruption beyond them. We argue that refusing collaboration with Israeli universities complicit in occupation constitutes one concrete and urgent form of critical disobedience that the academic community in Global North universities can take. Interwoven throughout this PoD and guiding our analyses are counterstories of Jawlani/Golani and Palestinian youth living under occupation, drawn from an ongoing qualitative study.</p
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