In recent times, there has been considerable interest in issues at the interface of the environment and development. In this paper, I review four prominent recent books about the environment and development. In particular, I analyze the contributions of these four books with regard to (i) the...

Note: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract as it appeared in the print journal. I study the pollution control problem faced by an imperfectly informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) that wants to design an international environmental agreement...

In the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, developing countries (DC's) were adamant that in order to protect the environment for the future, new institutions were needed which would channel resources from the wealthy developed countries to the poor DC's. With this backdrop, I analyze the problem faced by an...

I construct a dynamic model of the environmental policy formulation process in a stylized developing country (DC). Next, I analyze the employment and output effects of three pollution control policies. These policies embody different assumptions about the DC government's ability to commit to its...

We study the task faced by an asymmetrically informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) with limited funds that wishes to design an international environmental agreement (IEA) for less developed countries (LDCs). The SNGA can't contract directly with polluting firms in the various...

I analyze the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) with restricted funds that wishes to design an international environmental agreement (IEA) for less developed countries (LDCs). The SNGA can't contract directly with polluting firms in the...

We first construct a theoretical model of tax evasion in a stylized developing country in which all taxpayers have either high or low income. The key problem is that the high income taxpayers may underreport their income. An individual income tax return can only be verified with an audit that...

This paper analyzes the problem faced by an imperfectly informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) with restricted funds that wishes to design an International Environmental Agreement (IEA) for developing countries (DCs). The SNGA contracts with polluting firms through their...