covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food …

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 …

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

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 …

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