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Beyond Pollution Havens

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Poor countries suffer from serious environmental damage, and much more pollution control is justifiable. Weak regulation is partly to blame, but the evidence suggests that it reflects a general development problem, not deliberate creation of "pollution havens" to promote investment and trade. Aid from the OECD countries can help reduce pollution in poor countries by promoting better public information about polluters, stronger regulatory institutions, and more explicit attention to environmental risks in large projects. However, attempts to enforce OECD-level regulatory standards through general trade and aid sanctions are both regressive and useless: regressive because they penalize workers in poor countries by reducing opportunities for jobs and higher wages; useless because governments of low-income countries can not deliver on promises of OECD-level regulation, even if they wish to do so. Copyright (c) 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • David Wheeler, 2002. "Beyond Pollution Havens," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 2(2), pages 1-10, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:2:y:2002:i:2:p:1-10
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    1. Tang, John P., 2015. "Pollution havens and the trade in toxic chemicals: Evidence from U.S. trade flows," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 150-160.
    2. Tang, John P., 2015. "Pollution havens and the trade in toxic chemicals: Evidence from U.S. trade flows," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 150-160.
    3. Sarah A Moore & Heather Rosenfeld & Eric Nost & Kristen Vincent & Robert E Roth, 2018. "Undermining methodological nationalism: Cosmopolitan analysis and visualization of the North American hazardous waste trade," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(8), pages 1558-1579, November.
    4. Tunç, Gül İpek & Akbostancı, Elif & Türüt-Aşık, Serap, 2022. "Ecological unequal exchange between Turkey and the European Union: An assessment from value added perspective," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    5. Kyla Tienhaara, 2006. "Mineral investment and the regulation of the environment in developing countries: lessons from Ghana," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 6(4), pages 371-394, December.

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