In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in … negative externalities, and suggest that future research on pesticide-related damage should include information on local water …

pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly admitting to using little or no protective measures while applying … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as …

As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial … understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To … this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide traders was conducted with questions on the pesticides in stock …

How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important … implications for trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001, included statements on … question in food safety and environmental standards: Do regulations on pesticide have an effect on trade? They examine …

sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …

How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World …

countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Adopting a common standard in a region-that is, harmonization …

world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries …