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Developing countries' primary exports and the internalization of environmental externalities
Economy and ecosystems in change - analytical and historical approaches (1997)
  • Henk LM Kox, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem that commodity exports of developing countries are a major source of domestic environmental externalities, but that it is very hard for these countries to charge export prices that would allow adequate abatement of the externalities. Commoditie tend to be traded in very competitive markets in which most developing countries have on small market shares. The paper discusses the International Commodity-related Environmetal Agreement (ICREA) as an institutional arrangement to address this market failure.
Keywords
  • environmental externalities; commodity trade; developing countries; ICREA
Publication Date
1997
Editor
J.C. van den Bergh and J. van der Straaten
Publisher
Edward Elgar
Series
Advances in Ecological Economics
ISBN
185898 647 8
Citation Information
Henk LM Kox. "Developing countries' primary exports and the internalization of environmental externalities" CheltenhamEconomy and ecosystems in change - analytical and historical approaches (1997)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/henk_kox/29/