Significant advances have been made in measuring the stringency of environmental policies, and understanding the relationship between environmental action and economic dynamics, particularly in high-income countries. Despite this, unequivocal empirical evidence on the impact of environmental...

With the widespread interest in the role that international trade can play in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, increasing attention is being given to the poverty impacts of trade liberalisation. The high level of public interest has stimulated renewed research activity aimed at...

‘Greening' economic growth discourses are increasingly replacing the catchword of ‘sustainable development' within national and international policy circles. The core of the argument is that the growth of modern economies may be sustained or even augmented, while policy intervention...

Climate policy choices are influenced by the economics literature which analyses the costs and benefits of alternative strategies for climate action. This literature, in turn, rests on a series of choices about: the values and assumptions underlying the economic analysis; the methodologies for...