Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth

Mohan Munasinghe, Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Colombo, and Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, Raul O’Ryan, University of Chile (UC), Chile, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Research Institute for Applied Economics (IPEA), Brazil, Carlos de Miguel, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile, Carlos Young, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, Sebastian Miller, University of Chile (UC), Chile and Claudio Ferraz, Department of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Contents: Part I: Overview 1. Historical Evolution of Ideas 2. Framework for Analysis Part II: Brazil Case Study 3. Production, Consumption and the Environment in Brazil 4. Trade and the Environment: Linkages Between Competitiveness and the Industrial Pollution in Brazil 5. Consumption Patterns, Income Distribution and the Environment in Brazil 6. Agriculture Expansion and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1980–95 7. Summary of Main Findings in Brazil Part III: Chile Case Study 8. Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models 9. The ECOGEM General Equilibrium Model for Chile 10. Economic, Social and Environmental Status in Chile 11. Policy Applications 12. Conclusions and Future Research Bibliography Index

'The state-of-the-art studies in this volume are to be warmly welcomed. The authors successfully explore the economic, environmental and social consequences of policy-failures, and identify practical corrective measures.'