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Transboundary pollution control with both production and consumption emissions

Haruna, Shoji; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2023

This paper adds to the literature on transboundary pollution by considering pollution related to both production and … transboundary pollution to analyze the effects of trade liberalization on economic performance under two types of pollution. Our … pollution is considered. When trade liberalization policy is mutually implemented, consumer surplus and social environmental …

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Trade Liberalization and Local Development in India : Evidence from Nighttime Lights

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023

We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...

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The Environmental Justice Implications of Biofuels

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016

Analyses of the viability of biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels have often adopted a technocratic approach that focuses on environmental consequences, but places less emphasis on the impact that biofuels may have on vulnerable populations. This Article fills the gap in the existing...

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Deconstructing the Mythology of Free Trade : Critical Reflections on Comparative Advantage

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

The theory of comparative advantage serves as the theoretical justification for the neoliberal economic reforms promoted by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and multilateral and regional free trade agreements. This article employs insights from both neoclassical and heterodox...

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India's Reform of External Sector Policies and Future Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Srinivasan, T.N. - 2001

I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …

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Trade and the environment : new methods, measurements, and results

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - 2016

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The review is given structure by a novel decomposition linking changes in emissions to changes in productive activity at the plant, firm, industry, and national levels. While some...

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TTIP and Environmental Consequences

Qirjo, Dhimitri - 2020

Pollution Haven motive based on national per capita income variations is dominated by the Factor Endowment Argument based on the … Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory and the Pollution Haven motive originating from an inverse measurement of national population …

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Trade openness and the environmental Kuznets curve : evidence from cities in the People's Republic of China

Fang, Zheng; Huang, Bihong; Yang, Zhuoxiang - 2018

wastewater pollution increases with economic development until the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) reaches the turning …

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Transboundary Pollution, Trade Liberalization, and Environmental Taxes

Baksi, Soham; Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita - 2013

In a bilateral trade framework, we examine the impact of tariff reduction on the optimal pollution tax and social … welfare when pollution is transboundary. Strategic considerations lead countries to distort their pollution tax in the non …-cooperative equilibrium. Trade liberalization changes the distortion, and consequently the pollution tax and welfare, in ways that depend on …

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

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