VoxTalks Economics

S4 Ep9: Exporting pollution

Mar 5, 2021 · 11 min · Season 4 · Episode 9 · 11.5 MB
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Anti-pollution laws penalise firms whose activities emit CO2. Itzhak Ben-David tells Tim Phillips that well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict.