1. Introduction -- 2. Decoupling of environmental pressure from industrial growth, 1990-2002 -- 3. Heuristic model of EST adoption -- 4. Brazil -- 5. China -- 6. India -- 7. Kenya -- 8. Thailand -- 9. Tunisia -- 10. Viet Nam -- 11. Zimbabwe -- 13. Eight-country assessment of factors influencing...

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty links: the extent to which prices change and...

This paper surveys the broad patterns of world trade in manufactures since about 1960. While the bulk of manufactured exports came initially from relatively few large industrial countries, developing countries have encroached seriously upon their markets in recent years. The newly industrialized...

This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalisation generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and...