Trade and Tax Policy Reform and the Environment: The Economics of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
通过一般均衡模型分析发展中国家关税和税收政策变化对高地资源分配及土壤侵蚀率的影响，发现考虑整体经济效应时，关税改革等间接政策有时比直接环境政策更能减少高地侵蚀。
Abstract The widespread view that trade reform is bad for the environment has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In a developing country model we trace general equilibrium impacts of tax and tariff policy changes on upland resource allocation and, by implication, on the rate of erosion. Our analysis highlights the role of domestic market linkages as conduits between lowland and upland economies. When economywide effects are taken into account, indirect policies such as tariff reforms may in some cases provide better means for reducing upland erosion than would direct environmental policies.