Environmental Federalism : A Panacea or Pandora’s Box for Developing Countries?

This paper provides new empirical evidence to the debate on the optimal locus of power over environmental policymaking in developing countries. The authors develop a simple lobby group model with mobile capital. The model predicts that a decentralized institutional structure leads to weaker environm...

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Main Authors: Fredriksson, Per G., Mani, Muthukumara, Wollscheid, Jim R.
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/02/6596734/environmental-federalism-panacea-or-pandoras-box-developing-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8738