The Benefits and Costs of Informal Sector Pollution Control: Mexican Brick Kilns

Allen Blackman, Stephen Newbold (), Jhih-Shyang Shih and Joseph H. Cook

No 10532, Discussion Papers from Resources for the Future

Abstract: In developing countries, urban clusters of manufacturers which are "informal"-small-scale, unlicensed and virtually unregulated-can have severe environmental impacts. Yet pollution control efforts have traditionally focused on large industrial sources, in part because the problem is not well understood. This paper presents a benefit-cost analysis of four practical strategies for reducing emissions from traditional brick kilns in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. To our knowledge, it is the first such analysis of informal sources. We find very significant net benefits for three of the four control strategies. These results suggest that informal polluters should be a high priority for environmental regulators.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10532

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