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interjurisdictional spillovers and other related issues such as the
distributive justice problem and the public choice option.

Assessment Methods Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

Main Reference (1) Hindriks, Jean and Gareth D. Myles (2013), Intermediate
Public Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
(2) Myles, G.D. 1995. Public Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
(3) Hassan, B. (ed.) 2000. The Economics of Public Spending:
Debts, Deficits and Economic Performance. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
(4) Musgrave, R.A. 1999. Public Finance in a Democratic Society
Vol. III: The Foundations of Taxation and Expenditure.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
(5) Bird, R. and Vaillancourt, F. (eds) 1999. Fiscal
Decentralisation in Developing Countries. Cambridge
University Press.
(6) Breton, A. 1998. Competitive Governments: An Economic
Theory of Politics and Public Finance. Cambridge University
Press.
(7) Oates, W.E. (ed.) 1998. The Economics of Fiscal Federalism
and Local Finance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
(8) Wildasin, D.E. (ed.) 1997. Fiscal Aspects of Evolving
Federations. Cambridge University Press.
(9) Ahmad, E. (ed.) 1997. Financing Decentralized Expenditures:
An International Comparison of Grants. Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar.
(10) Gramlich, E.M. 1997. Financing Federal Systems.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
EQA 7010 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT

Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, students are able to:
(1) Analyse the relationship between environmental issues
/problem and trade.
(2) Examine how international agencies developed major trade –
environment agreement and its implementation ; and
(3) Evaluate critically trade–environmental policies in the wider
context of the global economics system.

Synopsis of Course This course will focus on both theory and empirical work to
Contents examine the effect of environment regulation on trade flows. A
simple economic model based on the partial and general
equilibrium framework will be developed to measure the
relationship between environmental regulation and international
trade. This course address such question as ; What is the real
evidence for trade-environmental disputes? What are the key
issues for each producing industry, especially the resource based
sectors. How does green marketing, eco-labelling and green
standard operation such as ISO 1400 resolve some of the
conflicts between trade and the environment.
Assessment Methods Continuous Assessment : 50%
Final Examination : 50%

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