Kishor, Nalin M.; Mani, Muthukumara; Constantino, Luis F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
An increasing number of tropical timber producing nations have enacted bans on export of logs. Proponents argue that a … log export ban is a second-best policy tool for addressing environmental externalities; it also creates more jobs and … improves scale efficiencies domestically. Theoretical arguments suggest that log export bans are largely incapable of achieving …