The present acceleration of environmental destruction can be linked to the economic trading strategies that came into vogue after World War II. The theory of comparative advantages of trade, which recommends that developing countries emphasize resource exports and exports of labor-intensive...

The global environment can be described by the physical dynamics and the economic use of the earth's resources. It has become. to a certain extent, a North-South issue.1 Developing countries tend to specialize in the production and the export of goods which deplete environmental resources such...

In this paper I describe certain results that were obtained in the UNITAR project based on a model I have specified for studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries within the South. In particular, I shall concentrate...