[PEN-L:1865] Re: Re: Re: Environmental Quality in Developing Countries

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re:
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>Is that what Summers/Pritchett meant...? It was about catalytic converters?...
>I certainly don't have "the" answers, but one point seems pretty
>unassailable - in countries that are lightly industrialized, should they
>just imitate the heavily industrialized countries, embracing (or having
>thrust upon them) the filthier industries? Or should they try to do it
>right from scratch?
>
>Doug


You're right: the memo doesn't talk about catalytic converters. But it's
easy to slide from the position that buying the right to dump bargeloads of
toxic waste from third-world dictators should be a "blocked exchange," in
Michael Walzer's terms, to the position that no developing country should
ever follow a less-than-cleanest-possible path of industrialization.

Brad DeLong