Trade and the Environment in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Developing Economies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Methodology and Modelling

   1. Globarlisation and the Environment from a Development Perspective

      • John Beghin, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 3-15

   2. Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms

      • John Beghin

      Pages 17-30

   3. Empirical Modelling of Trade and the Environment

      • John Beghin, Sébastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 31-78

   4. Input-Based Pollution Estimates for Environmental Assessment in Developing Countries

      • Sebastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 79-107

   5. Modelling Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Their Valuation: An Application to Santiago, Chile

      • Brad Bowland, John Beghin

      Pages 109-136

3. Case Studies

   1. Growth, Trade, and the Environment Nexus in Chile: A Comprehensive Assessment

      • John Beghin, Brad Bowland, Sébastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 139-166

   2. Trade Liberalisation and the Environment in China

      • Sébastien Dessus, Amani El Obeid, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 167-186

   3. Coordinated Trade and Environmental Policies for Morocco

      • David Roland-Holst, Maurizio Bussolo

      Pages 187-208

   4. Outward Orientation, Growth, and the Environment in Vietnam

      • Amani El Obeid, Dominque van der Mensbrugghe, Sébastien Dessus

      Pages 209-231

   5. Synthesis of Case Studies on Indonesia, Mexico, and Costa Rica

      • Amani El Obeid

      Pages 233-250

   6. Conclusions

      • John Beghin, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

      Pages 251-258

4. Back Matter

   Pages 259-275

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This book was initiated while the three major authors were at the Development Centre of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, working on its program on economic growth, trade, and sustainability. We wish to thank the OECD Development Centre for its support. The book was completed during summer 2001 at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. We appreciate the resources and financial support CARD provided for publication of this work. Sandra Clarke provided technical editing of the manuscripts and oversaw the indexing of the book; Becky Olson prepared the camera-ready copy of the final manuscript. We thank them for their instrumental help in these last steps. Part of the work presented in this volume previously appeared in some form in journals. The analysis of Chile presented in Chapter 6 appeared as “Growth, Trade, Pollution and Natural-Resource Use in Chile. Evidence from an Economywide Model,” Agricultural Economics 19(1998): 87-97; and as “Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in Chile: Assessing the Linkages,” Environment and Development Economics, in press. The work on Costa Rica and Indonesia summarised in Chapter 10 appeared as “Is There a Trade-off Between Trade Liberalisation and Pollution Abatement in Costa Rica? A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment,” Journal of Policy Modeling 20(1): 11-31; and as “The Environment and Welfare Implications of Trade and Tax Policy,” Journal of Development Economics 52(1997): 65-82.

• Air pollution
• Developing Countries
• Developing Economies
• Empirical Analysis
• development
• growth
• negotiations

"The book makes many important contributions and is a must-read for anyone involved in trade/environment. It should also be of interest to CGE modelers and environmental policy analysts. I encourage researchers to use the base model and the results from the book to broaden the trade/environment investigations for more countries or to refine and focus the analyses presented for the seven countries. There is plenty of work to be done. I hope that future analyses are performed with such care and completeness."
(American Journal of Agricultural Economics (November 2003)

• Iowa State University, Ames, USA

  John Beghin

• Mills College, Oakland, USA

  David Roland-Holst

• The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

  Dominique Mensbrugghe

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