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Environmental policy and development

1974, Intereconomics

Abstract

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Key takeaways

  • What does all this mean for the less developed countries (LDCs)?
  • But the same factors that promise an improvement in the LDCs' balance of trade also underlie an expected deterioration in their terms of trade, as import prices rise with no change in export prices.
  • Recovered materials will compete in world markets with virgin materials and, to the extent that these represent exports of LDCs, their export prices and foreign exchange earnings may be depressed somewhat as a result.
  • But whenever environmental standards are raised in LDCs the MNC will clearly have a competitive edge over local competitors.
  • The basis of this argument is that LDCs have been tangibly damaged by developed-country industrialization.