water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …

The current Paper addresses the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels. The main focus is quite … different from the previous literature. The mechanism linking pollution and trade is that trade provides the home government … that sense, the existence of trade helps reduce domestic pollution compared to what would prevail in a situation of autarky …

In general, a reduction in trade barriers will affect the environment by expanding the scale of economic activity, by …. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in US industry influences the pattern of international trade … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …

Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert …

This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade … allows for protectionist policies, and why there is opposition to the globalization of markets that has occurred as the …

know the motives for policies that are allegedly pursued to protect the environment, but that also give commercial …

in an attempt to impose one's own standards on another country's environment, or when trade liberalization is opposed by … coal and food, trade liberalization could well improve rather than worsen the global environment. …