Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean PDF Download

Good economic policy can be good environmental policy; Poverty and slow growth can pollute and degrade; Subsidies can be polluters; Openness can reduce pollution; Better health requires cleaner water; Saving the environment can help the economy; Replacing perverse incentives with appropriate ones; Market-based incentives and regulations; Market-based incentives; command-and control measures; Combining regulations and incentives; Harmonizing regulations with incentives; Using the private sector; Making the right choices; Data to establish priorities and raise political awareness; Information and analysis for improved environmental assessment; Analyzing alternatives; Seeking cost-effective interventions; Strenghening institutional capacity; Strengthening institutions; Decentralizing and improving popular participation; New policies for forestry; Minimizing human dislocation; Amerindians; Global issues and international assistance; Priorities and funding; More data and studies are needed; Problems and prospects for global cooperation; World Bank Funded projects with environmental components and GEF Funded Projects; Evolution of an active partnership; Unintended consequences of regulations; Saving Brazil's rainforests; Reducing congestion and pollution in Santiago; Cost-effective air pollution control in Mexico; Carajas - problems of unanticipated consequences; Getting more out of less in Bogota; Greening Haiti; Hard choices in Yacyreta; Regional cooperation for cleaner caribbean waters.