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Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities : a methodology and application for Tunisia

Dasgupta, Susmita; Meisner, Craig; Wheeler, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in almost every developing country or economy in transition over the past several decades. Public health and environmental authorities are eager to reduce health threats by removing and decontaminating stockpile sites, but there are many sites, cleanup can be...

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Power sharing and pollution control : coordinating policies among levels of government

Jack, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

Traditional approaches to pollution control emphasize the government's role in providing incentives to alter the behavior of relevant economic agents. But to exploit cost advantages at different levels of government, pollution control policies typically involve assigning a variety of...

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A public strategy for compliance monitoring

Gauri, Varun; Staton, Jeffrey K.; Cullell, Jorge Vargas - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Theoretical accounts of compliance with court orders emphasize the importance of transparency. Most empirical studies of compliance center on high profile political cases, largely ignoring the high-volume, quotidian claims against the state for basic services that constitute the largest share of...

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Cognitive and behavioral challenges in responding to climate change

Norgaard, Kari Marie - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Climate scientists have identified global warming as the most important environmental issue of our time, but it has taken over 20 years for the problem to penetrate the public discourse in even the most superficial manner. While some nations have done better than others, no nation has adequately...

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Monitoring environmental standards : do local conditions matter?

Dion, Catherine; Lanoie, Paul; Laplante, Benoit - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

Economists have criticized regulations that impose uniform environmental standards on plants that may face different marginal abatement costs and damage functions. Such critics ignore the difference in standard implementation across plants, giving rise to nonuniform standards. The authors...

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Environmental federalism : a panacea or Pandora's box for developing countries?

Fredriksson, Per G.; Mani, Muthukumara; Wollscheid, Jim R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

This paper provides new empirical evidence to the debate on the optimal locus of power over environmental policymaking …

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The determinants of Government environmental performance - an empirical analysis of Chinese townships

Wang, Hua; Di, Wenhua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

This paper explores the determinants of government environmental performance at the local level. Chinese township governments, the lowest level in the hierarchical government structure, were selected for this exercise. The performance indicators used in the analyses include the efforts of...

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The effects of local environmental institutions on perceptions of smoke and fire problems in Brazil

Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila; M. Chomitz, Kenneth - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Environmental concern in developing countries has risen rapidly over the past decade. At the same time, decentralization and civic participation in environmental policy-making have also burgeoned. This paper uses data from the Brazilian Municipal Environmental Survey 2001 to examine the causal...

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Firms'environmental performance : does news matter ?

Mamingi, Nlandu; Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

environmental news in print media on firms'environmental performance. Using data from a survey of industrial facilities in the … Republic of Korea, probit estimation results indicate that the publication of environmental news in print media and the firm …, regulations, and environmental training. This paper thus reemphasizes the key role of media in influencing firms …

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Dirty exports and environmental regulation : do standards matter to trade?

Wilson, John S.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Sewadeh, Mirvat - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to launch negotiations on trade and the environment, specifically clarification of WTO...

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