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Clean technology transfers and North-South technological gap: An important issue for environmental policies

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  • Patrick Schembri

    (Cemotev - Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

  • Petit Olivier

    (CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the main stakes of clean technology transfer between the North and the South in a context of economic globalization and climate change. We present a model of environmental taxation between two asymmetric countries, the North and the South. It shows that (i) there exists a technological gap between the North and the South which results from an imperfect absorptive capability of the South; (ii) this absorptive capability defines the rate of innovation in clean technologies for the South; (iii) this technological gap contributes to explain why the South pollutes more than the North in a non-cooperative game in which the environmental tax rates determine the location of the firms; (iv) cooperation is possible only if a financial transfer between the North and the South can be set. This financial transfer is a measure of the cost of this so-called Win-Win strategy. JEL Classification: F18, H23, Q54, O33.

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  • Patrick Schembri & Petit Olivier, 2010. "Clean technology transfers and North-South technological gap: An important issue for environmental policies," Post-Print hal-02510717, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02510717
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    Keywords

    clean technology transfert; global warming; environmental taxtion; the pollution haven hypothesis; transfert de technologie propre; Réchauffement climatique; taxation climatique; hypothèse de paradis de pollution;
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    JEL classification:

    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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