In the past decade, public disclosure of polluters' environmental indicators has appeared as a new instrument aimed at reducing industrial pollution. The Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia, which ran from 1995 to 1998, can claim to be the first large-scale program in the developing world that used information disclosure to control industrial pollution. At the time, it was considered an inspiring and reasonably cheap experiment, and several other countries set off to emulate various aspects. There have been claims of success for this pioneering scheme, yet little formal and conclusive analysis has been undertaken. This paper uses econometric techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of PROPER at delivering emissions reductions.
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