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Small-Scale Industry, Environmental Regulation, and Poverty

其他書名	The Case of Brazil
出版	World Bank, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xd_DwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Governments and international development agencies have intensified efforts to promote small-scale enterprises as an engine of pro-poor growth. In Brazil, however, small scale industries may also be responsible for the bulk of air pollution emissions. Although employees of polluting small-scale industries in Brazil are not disproportionately poor, simulations suggest that stringent environmental regulation resulting in widespread closures of pollution-intensive small-scale industries would result in a non-negligible increase in poverty among employees of these firms. The results suggest that the enthusiasm for small-scale enterprises needs to be tempered by awareness of the potential environmental costs imposed by this sector.