International Treaties on Trade and Global Pollution.
The paper shows that global pollution need not rise under free trade in goods and/or emissions even in the complete absence of income effects. Differences in environmental concerns across the countries lead to differences in the pollution-intensity of production and thus generate the possibility of increasing world output and income without increasing the world pollution by shifting the production of the polluting good from the country with higher pollution-intensity of production to the country with lower one.
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1999
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Authors: | Chander, P. ; Khan, A. |
Institutions: | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain |
Subject: | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | POLLUTION | INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY |
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