The literature on trade openness, economic development, and the environment is largely inconclusive about the … show that whether or not trade has a beneficial effect on the environment varies depending on the pollutant and the country …. Trade is found to benefit the environment in OECD countries. It has detrimental effects, however, on sulfur dioxide (SO2 …

This paper sheds light on the iron and steel (IS) scrap trade to examine how economic development affects the quality … of trade due to comparative advantage. We find that economic development in both importing and exporting countries has a …