Browsing by Author "Jayasuriya, S."
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- Development strategy, poverty, and deforestation in the PhilippinesCoxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, S. (2004)Most thinking on poverty and deforestation in developing countries does so in terms of the influence of one on the other, in either direction. However, the two have common determinants in the underlying economic and institutional conditions that set factor and product prices and the incentives for migration and natural resource-depleting activities. These determinants include property rights failures (open access to forest lands) but also government failures in the form of economic policies that indirectly promote deforestation and retard poverty alleviation. A general equilibrium approach permits the analytical identification of the influences that such distortions exert on poverty and deforestation pressures. Using a numerical general equilibrium model, we consider the likely effects of the reform of industrial and agricultural protection policy, a key component of modern Philippine economic development strategy, on the determinants of poverty and deforestation.
- The Open Economy And The Environment: Development, Trade and Resources in AsiaCoxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, S. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003)
- Trade liberalization, resource degradation and industrial pollution in developing countriesCoxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, S. (2005)Environmental damage is in reality many different types of phenomena, each with a unique set of causes and characteristics. We present an analytical model identifying intersectoral and interregional links of economy and environment and explore consequences of trade policy and world price changes. The model contains explicit spatial and institutional features relevant to developing economies. We show that similar trade or policy shocks can have different effects, depending on initial economic structure, trade orientation and policies. Further, when there is more than one sectoral source of environmental damage, a policy or price shock may have unexpected environmental and welfare results.