A Study of India's Textile Exports and Environmental Regulations

K.S. Kavi Kumar is Professor, Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai, India. He coordinated activities of the Centre of Excellence in environmental economics, supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, at the MSE during 2007-2015. He is also a Member, Expert Committee of Climate Change, Government of India; and a Member, State Environment Appraisal Committee, Tamil Nadu. Prof. Kumar is an MTech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and obtained his PhD in development economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Developmental Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. His areas of research interest are economics of environment, economics of climate change, and development economics.