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Shouvik Chakraborty
Shouvik Chakraborty is a researcher at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in economics on the topic 'Movements in the Terms of Trade of Primary Commodities vis-à-vis Manufactured Goods: A Theoretical and Empirical Study' from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
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The ‘Right to Energy’ and carbon tax: A game changer in India
India's carbon emissions in 2014 were more than three times its level in 1990. While the emissions have increased sharply, their distribution across income groups is extremely skewed. The poor in India who contribute the least to climate change face the maximum brunt. In this post, Azad and Chakraborty discuss a proposal of taxing carbon while redistributing the revenue to the poor by giving them access to free energy up to a limit.
