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Social scientists have long argued that developed countries are more and more responsible for climate change because they externalise pollution to less developed countries. This paper offers a way to quantify climate responsibility by calculating carbon footprints and carbon balances between...
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This paper provides an overview of trade, environmental, and related public issues and policies. It discusses the pollution problem, the recent global warming trend, the attempts of world's various levels of institutions such as the UN, the WTO, regional, national, and other organizations to...
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controlled economic environment that was loosened slightly in the mid-1980s. The most important and critical segments of this … reform were trade and foreign investment. India has felt the impact of globalization through increased prosperity, partly …. Scholarly work on trade, FDI, and the environment in India with rich theoretical insight and solid empirical evidence is scarce …
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internalized, trade becomes unambiguously beneficial for the environment and allows pursuing both environmental objectives and fast …
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through trade liberalization policies. However, this integration has profoundly affected the environment, particularly in …
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We study the role of trade policy in one of the most pressing climate policy challenges that developing countries face: meeting voluntary emission restraints (VERs). To do so, we develop a general equilibrium trade model that extends Caliendo and Parro (2015) in three dimensions. First, we model...
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The majority of the studies on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) consider production-based indicators for environmental quality, in this way they ignore the consequences of international trade. This study applies methods of input-output analysis to obtain CO2 consumption-based indicators to...
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Some scholars argue that trade liberalization results in the 'outsourcing' of pollution to pollution havens, and this may explain the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in industrialized countries. Others claim that trade liberalization effectively lessens pollution by allowing a...
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product fragmentation and expanding commodity trade. We also explore the effects on production, trade, environment and …
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