Los Angeles, Mexico City, Cubatao, and Ankara - Efficient environmental regulation : case studies of urban air pollution (English)

The authors review the economic principles that should guide the efficient choice of targeted policies for environmental protection. They recommend policy instruments along three dimensions: (1) whether they use economic incentives; (2) whether they target environmental damage directly; and (3) whether they specify prices, quantities, or technologies. This distinction is helpful in guiding policy choices because many discussions in the economics literature...

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Levinson, Arik;

Shetty,Sudhir;
Document Date
1992/08/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS942
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mexico, Turkiye, United States, Brazil,
Region
Europe and Central Asia, Other, Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Doc Name
Los Angeles, Mexico City, Cubatao, and Ankara - Efficient environmental regulation : case studies of urban air pollution
Keywords
marginal abatement cost curve

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Levinson, Arik; Shetty,Sudhir.

Los Angeles, Mexico City, Cubatao, and Ankara - Efficient environmental regulation : case studies of urban air pollution (English). Policy, research working papers ; no. WPS 942. World development report Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/149491468781772124

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