aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade … hampered by the lack of a common language and also suffered from little recourse to economic theory and empirical evidence. The … international trade. We critically review both theory and empirical work to answer three basic questions. What do we know about the …

measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO … evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We … examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations when it alters the composition, and hence the pollution … develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then …

: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …