Dirt is in the Eye of the Beholder: The World Bank Air Pollution Intensities for Mexico

Francisco Aguayo, Kevin P. Gallagher and Ana Citlalic Gonzalez

No 15576, Working Papers from Tufts University, Global Development and Environment Institute

Abstract: This paper identifies a number of errors and inconsistencies in a series of air pollution intensities for Mexico that were recently created by the World Bank. Because these data are being used to conduct public policy analysis and advice for Mexico and countries at similar levels of development, knowledge of the limits of these data is of utmost importance. In addition to identifying the problems with these data, this paper makes a series of adjustments to offer a corrected dataset. These newly corrected data are available on the World Bank's New Ideas in Pollution Regulation (NIPR) web page.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15576

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