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1. Economic policies for sustainable development / Ian Goldin and L. Alan Winters -- 2. Pollution and growth: what do we know? / Gene M. Grossman -- 3. Does sustainability require growth? / Richard Baldwin -- 4. What sustains economic development? / Maurice Scott -- 5. Optimal development and the idea of net national product / Partha Dasgupta -- 6. Sustainable growth and the Green Golden Rule / Andrea Beltratti, Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal -- 7. Economic policies for sustainable resource use in Morocco / Ian Goldin and David Roland-Holst -- 8. Energy pricing for sustainable development in China / Rosemary Clarke and L. Alan Winters -- 9. Carbon abatement, transfers and energy efficiency / Jean-Marc Burniaux, John P. Martin, Joaquim Oliveira-Martins and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- 10. Policy coordination for sustainability: commitments, transfers, and linked negotiations / Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco. This book applies rigorous economic analysis to the question of sustainable development. It considers the inter-relationship between growth and sustainability showing that one does not necessarily exist to the detriment of the other. Sustainability may be measured and defined in national accounting terms and the contributors explore a potentially powerful theoretical definition. Case studies on Morocco and China examine some of the domestic policy requirements of sustainability, revealing the desirability of quite complex combinations of policies. International policy aspects of sustainability are considered, such as technology transfer and the establishment of workable agreements to reduce global pollution. The volume demonstrates the need to build the sustainability debate on sound economic foundations, and the ability of economists to provide such foundations. |