Racing to the Bottom?: Foreign Investment and Air Pollution in Developing Countries

David Wheeler

জানু ২০০১ · World Bank Publications

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Critics of free trade have raised the specter of a "race to the bottom" in which environmental standards collapse because polluters threaten to relocate to "pollution havens" in the developing world. The flaw in the race-to-the-bottom model is that its basic assumptions misrepresent the political economy of pollution control in developing countries