This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

We survey the recent literature on the theoretical and empirical developments of the relationship between trade and the environment. The theory, driven by empirical findings, has progressed from the environment as a pure source of international comparative advantage in trade to a simultaneous...