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Do you think that some policies and laws relating to environment have retarded the development process? Give examples. How can an ideal balance between environmental protection and development goals be brought about?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Environmental regulation has certainly delayed projects in India. Whether delay amounts to retarded development depends on how development is defined, and on any defensible definition the claim fails: regulation raises transaction costs, but the "green brake" thesis mistakes procedural failure for substantive conflict.

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  • How the balance can be struck
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