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- Title
Construction of Sub-country Level Environment Policy Stringency Index: A Study on Indian States.
- Authors
Gupta, Rajesh; Guha, Atulan
- Abstract
The abundance of country-level socio-economic development indices is of limited help unless sub-country-level indices on the quality of policies are also available. Tracing the regional indices landscape of India, this study proposes the state-level Environment Policy Stringency Index for Indian states. Capturing Indian states' policies across six areas with weight determination done deploying principal component analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis-Benefit of Doubt approach, the composite index calculated in the study also examines the scores grouping the sub-national units based upon the income levels. Besides ranking for inter-state comparison, the proposed index is significantly associated with particulate matter pollution levels in states. This study has three key contributions: conceptualising the principal-based sub-national index while making a case for developing sub-country level policy indices, identifying state-level environment policy variables and constructing an Environment Policy Stringency Index for Indian states.
- Subjects
INDIA; HUMAN Development Index; DATA envelopment analysis; MIDDLE-income countries; PRINCIPAL components analysis; INSTITUTIONAL environment; PARTICULATE matter; INDIAN Americans
- Publication
Social Indicators Research, 2024, Vol 172, Issue 2, p449
- ISSN
0303-8300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11205-023-03281-9