This paper studies an intertemporal model of protection and environmental policy in a small trading developing nation (DN). The DN government protects the polluting and the import competing sector of the economy with a tariff. The output and employment effects of three pollution taxes are...

Small farmers in many tropical developing countries practice swidden agriculture. A key aspect of swidden agriculture is the time period during which the land is left fallow. This paper uses a new ecological-economic approach to study the fallow period and to determine the optimal length of this...

A key goal of renewable resource managers in developing countries is to take actions to ensure that the resource being managed stays away from irreversible or crisis states in which it provides neither consumptive nor non-consumptive services to humans. However, despite a manager's best efforts,...

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...

The following is a description of the paper, and not the actual abstract as it appeared in the journal. In this paper we analyze the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) who wishes to design an International Environmental Agreement (IEA). We...

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...

What are the nexuses between corruption, bribery, and wait times in the public allocation of goods in developing countries? This question has received scant attention in the literature. Consequently, we use queuing theory to analyze models in which a good is allocated publically, first in a...

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...