This book was initiated while the three major authors were at the
Development Centre of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) in Paris, working on its program on economic growth,
trade, and sustainability. We wish to thank the OECD Development Centre
for its support. The book was completed during summer 2001 at the Center
for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
We appreciate the resources and financial support CARD provided for
publication of this work. Sandra Clarke provided technical editing of
the manuscripts and oversaw the indexing of the book; Becky Olson
prepared the camera-ready copy of the final manuscript. We thank them
for their instrumental help in these last steps. Part of the work
presented in this volume previously appeared in some form in journals.
The analysis of Chile presented in Chapter 6 appeared as "Growth, Trade,
Pollution and Natural-Resource Use in Chile. Evidence from an
Economywide Model," Agricultural Economics 19(1998): 87-97; and as
"Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in
Chile: Assessing the Linkages," Environment and Development Economics,
in press. The work on Costa Rica and Indonesia summarised in Chapter 10
appeared as "Is There a Trade-off Between Trade Liberalisation and
Pollution Abatement in Costa Rica? A Computable General Equilibrium
Assessment," Journal of Policy Modeling 20(1): 11-31; and as "The
Environment and Welfare Implications of Trade and Tax Policy," Journal
of Development Economics 52(1997): 65-82.