the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

that targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River. In a difference-in-differences framework, the rulings are found to … have precipitated reductions in river pollution and one-month infant mortality, both of which persist for more than a … decade. The authors then estimate a pollution-mortality dose-response function across twenty-nine rivers in the Ganga Basin …

The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …

emissions. A carbon charge on fuels for international aviation and shipping equal to $25 per tonne of emitted CO2 could raise … about $12 billion from aviation and about $26 billion from shipping by 2020. Market-based instruments ought to be used to …

This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air … pollution. It also provides estimates based on three natural resource damage categories: (i) agricultural damage from soil …

. This is achieved using firm-level data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering more than 16,000 manufacturing firms in …

endowments and environmental policies have only marginally affected the pollution content of world trade during the 1986 …This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components - a deep …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …