North-South Trade And Environment

Since 1970s environment has emerged as a major subject of intensive international care because the world environment is a composite global resource, sustaining life for all of us and hence it needs to be preserved. This work is a preliminary step to examine the pattern of trade and environmental effects in a North South framework through a standard general equilibrium model and show new way to analyze the traditional trade theories.It will motivate further analysis of Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin trade model in the context of North-South trade pattern specially pollution haven and relocation of dirty industries worldwide.

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Tirthankar Mandal has obtained his PhD degree in Economics under the supervision of Dr. Pinaki Chakraborti from The University of Burdwan in 2011. He is an Assistant Professor in Economics and working in the field of international trade and environment.