Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...

1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Sustainable Development -- 2.3 Disposition and Delimitations -- 3. Distortions in the Economic System and the Need for Economic Analysis -- 3.1 The “Bench-mark” Economy -- 3.2 Market Failures -- 3.3 Policy Failures -- 3.4 Summary -- 4....

This book is the second, revised, edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The main purposes of this book are: to discuss the causes of environmental degradation from an economic perspective; to provide a conceptual framework for the...

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...