Trade and the Environment in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Developing Economies (Economy & Environment)

Beghin, John (Editor)/ Roland-Holst, David (Editor)/ Van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9048159601 / ISBN 13: 9789048159604

Published by Springer, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trade and the Environment in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Developing Economies (Economy & Environment)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048159601
• ISBN 13: 9789048159604
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.46 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

Review

"The book makes many important contributions and is a must-read for anyone involved in trade/environment. It should also be of interest to CGE modelers and environmental policy analysts. I encourage researchers to use the base model and the results from the book to broaden the trade/environment investigations for more countries or to refine and focus the analyses presented for the seven countries. There is plenty of work to be done. I hope that future analyses are performed with such care and completeness."
(American Journal of Agricultural Economics (November 2003)