Trade and the Environment in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Developing Economies

Description

This book was initiated while the three major authors were at the Development Centre of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, working on its program on economic growth, trade, and sustainability. We wish to thank the OECD Development Centre for its support. The book was completed during summer 2001 at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. We appreciate the resources and financial support CARD provided for publication of this work. Sandra Clarke provided technical editing of the manuscripts and oversaw the indexing of the book; Becky Olson prepared the camera-ready copy of the final manuscript. We thank them for their instrumental help in these last steps. Part of the work presented in this volume previously appeared in some form in journals. The analysis of Chile presented in Chapter 6 appeared as “Growth, Trade, Pollution and Natural-Resource Use in Chile. Evidence from an Economywide Model,” Agricultural Economics 19(1998): 87-97; and as “Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in Chile: Assessing the Linkages,” Environment and Development Economics, in press. The work on Costa Rica and Indonesia summarised in Chapter 10 appeared as “Is There a Trade-off Between Trade Liberalisation and Pollution Abatement in Costa Rica? A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment,” Journal of Policy Modeling 20(1): 11-31; and as “The Environment and Welfare Implications of Trade and Tax Policy,” Journal of Development Economics 52(1997): 65-82. Globarlisation and the Environment from a Development Perspective....Pages 3-15 Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms....Pages 17-30 Empirical Modelling of Trade and the Environment....Pages 31-78 Input-Based Pollution Estimates for Environmental Assessment in Developing Countries....Pages 79-107 Modelling Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Their Valuation: An Application to Santiago, Chile....Pages 109-136 Growth, Trade, and the Environment Nexus in Chile: A Comprehensive Assessment....Pages 139-166 Trade Liberalisation and the Environment in China....Pages 167-186 Coordinated Trade and Environmental Policies for Morocco....Pages 187-208 Outward Orientation, Growth, and the Environment in Vietnam....Pages 209-231 Synthesis of Case Studies on Indonesia, Mexico, and Costa Rica....Pages 233-250 Conclusions....Pages 251-258