www.elsevier.com/locate/worlddev Agricultural Trade, Development and Toxic Risk (2009)
Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler, Yanhong Jin
Summary. — This paper uses a large database of laboratory test results to investigate the sources of international variation in pesticide residues on food products. We specify and estimate a model...
Craviari, Thierry, Pettifor, John M., Thacher, Tom D., Meisner, Craig, Arnaud, Josiane, Fischer, Philip R., ...
Rickets has emerged as a public-health problem in Bangladesh during the past two decades, with up to 8% of children clinically affected in some areas. Insufficiency of dietary calcium is thought to...
Public Disclosure Of Environmental Violations (2008)
In The Republic, Jong Ho Hong, Craig Meisner
this paper, we provide a comprehensive descriptive analysis of this dataset. Results suggest that the news media has given an important, though perhaps declining coverage to the violation lists, with...
Susmita Dasgupta, Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler, Giovanna Dore, ...
to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry...
Susmita Dasgupta, Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler
Environmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people, because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use, and their living conditions may offer little protection from...
Delivering the Goods: Scaling out Results of Natural Resource Management Research (2002)
Harrington, Larry, White, Jeffrey, Grace, Peter, Hodson, David, Hartkamp, Agnes Dewi, Vaughan, Christopher, ...
"To help integrated natural resource management (INRM) research 'deliver the goods' for many of the world's poor over a large area and in a timely manner, the authors suggest a problem-solving...
Wheat production in Bangladesh: technological, economic and policy issues
Morris, Michael L., Chowdhury, Nuimuddin, Meisner, Craig
Since the early 1970s, sustained government investment in irrigation facilities, rural infrastructure, agricultural research, and extension services has helped Bangladeshi farmers achieve dramatic...
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David
Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest management (IPM), an ecologically-based approach to control of harmful insects...
Laplante, Benoit, Meisner, Craig, Wang, Hua
This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage....
Accounting for toxicity risks in pollution control : does it matter?
Dasgupta, Susmita, Laplante, Benoit, Meisner, Craig
The accounting and public release of information about industrial toxic pollution emissions is meeting increasing criticism in that these listings typically do not account for the different toxicity...
Public disclosure of environmental violations in the Republic of Korea
Jong Ho Long, Laplante, Benoit, Meisner, Craig
Since 1989, environmental authorities of the Republic of Korea have published on a monthly basis a list of enterprises violating the country's environmental rules and regulations. This may be the...
Estimating willingness-to-pay with random valuation models : an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia
Wang,Hua, Laplante, Benoit, Xun Wu, Meisner, Craig
This paper presents a case study of willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimation using random valuation models. A contingent valuation survey was conducted in Yerevan, Armenia to estimate people's WTP for the...
Estimating conventional industrial water pollution in Thailand
Laplante and Meisner examine the impact of development on Thai environment. The site provides an overview of laws and concludes that there has been and is little effort to develop, monitor, and...
Pesticide use in Brazil in the era of agroindustrialization and globalization
Dasgupta, Susmita, Mamingi, Nlandu, Meisner, Craig
This study examines the trend in pesticide use in Brazil in the 1990s in the context of agroindustrialization and globalization (trade liberalization). It also seeks to document the environmental...
The impact of sea level rise on developing countries : a comparative analysis
Dasgupta, Susmita, Laplante, Benoit, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David, Jianping Yan
Sea level rise (SLR) due to climate change is a serious global threat. The scientific evidence is now overwhelming. Continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions and associated global warming could...
Country stakes in climate change negotiations : two dimensions of vulnerability
Buys, Piet, Deichmann, Uwe, Meisner, Craig, Ton-That, Thao, Wheeler, David
Using a comprehensive geo-referenced database of indicators relating to global change and energy, the paper assesses countries'likely attitudes with respect to international treaties that regulate...
The poverty/environment nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic
Dasgupta, Susmita, Deichmann, Uwe, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David
Environmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use and their living conditions may offer little protection from air,...
Measuring up - new directions for environmental programs at the World Bank
Buys, Piet, Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Pandey, Kiran, Wheeler, David, Bolt, Katharine, ...
The World Bank's new environment strategy advocates cost-effective reduction of air and water pollutants that are most harmful to human health. In addition, it addresses threats to the livelihood of...
Buys, Piet, Chomitz, Kenneth, Dasgupta, Susmita, Deichmann, Uwe, Larsen, Bjorn, Meisner, Craig, ...
Program administrators are often faced with the difficult problem of allocating scarce resources among regions in a country when interventions are aimed at addressing multiple objectives. One main...
How has environment mattered ? an analysis of World Bank resource allocation
Acharya, Anjali, Ijjasz-Vasquez, Ede Jorge, Hamilton, Kirk, Buys, Piet, Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, ...
How has environment mattered for the World Bank? The aggregate figures suggest that it has mattered a great deal, since the Bank's total environmental lending has exceeded $US 9 billion over the past...
Pesticide poisoning of farm workers : implications of blood test results from Vietnam
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David, Nhan Thi Lam, Khuc Xuyen
In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Blood cholinesterase tests suggest that the incidence of...
Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use : evidence from Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Huq, Mainul
In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides. With only...
Pesticide traders'perception of health risks : evidence from Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Mamingi, Nlandu
As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial understanding of their perception is necessary toguide further pesticide information...
Meisner, Craig, Wang, Hua, Laplante, Benoit
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification)....
Where is the Poverty-Environment Nexus? Evidence from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam
Dasgupta, Susmita, Deichmann, Uwe, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David
Agricultural Trade, Development and Toxic Risk
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David, Jin, Yanhong
Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler
Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest management (IPM), an ecologically based approach to control harmful insects and...
The economics of decentralized poverty-environment programs: An application for Lao PDR
Buys, Piet, Chomitz, Ken, Dasgupta, Susmita, Deichmann, Uwe, Larsen, Bjorn, Meisner, Craig, ...
Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities : a methodology and application for Tunisia
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Wheeler, David
Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in almost every developing country or economy in transition over the past several decades. Public health and environmental authorities are eager to reduce health...