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Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this
book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective
environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving
remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the
Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how
one can achieve both economic growth and improved environmental and
safety protection, and of the extent to which regulatory systems
can be transferred across national and cultural boundaries. The
authors develop a theoretical framework for assessing regulatory
success, then use it to analyze Poland's recent experience.
Grounded in five case studies of recently privatized firms, the
analysis also presents a new survey of privately owned firms,
extensive policy and data analysis, and interviews with key policy
leaders, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals. The book points to
case-specific decision making and information richness as key
dimensions of an effective regulatory system and considers in depth
the extent to which information richness is culturally dependent,
and hence its portability as a policy tool. Addressing regulatory
issues that are specific to both the United States and the
international development community, the book makes a significant
contribution to advancing the theoretical and conceptual frameworks
used to explain the success, or lack of success, of regulatory
systems.
'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the
developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in
Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical
regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of
continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth. It is the most
polluted region in the world. Whilst being at the leading edge of
the processes of urbanization, industrialization, and globalization
these economies are in the midst, not at the end, of their
urban-industrial transformations. During the next 25 years urban
populations in the region are expected roughly to double, and most
of the industrial capital stock that will be on the ground by 2030
has not yet been built. Given East Asia's growing size in the
world's economy and ecology, and its increasingly polluted
environment, this looming urban-industrial transformation is both a
challenge and an opportunity. Unless steps are taken now to make
this transformation more sustainable, East Asia's, and the world's,
environmental future is likely to deteriorate seriously. Using
detailed case studies and rigorous empirical analyses Rock and
Angel, leading experts in this field, show that East Asian
governments have found institutionally unique ways to overcome the
sustainability challenge. As a result of these findings, they
demonstrate how even low income economies in the rest of the world
can use regulatory polices, industrial policies, and an openness to
trade and foreign investment that will increase the competitiveness
of their firms whilst improving their environmental performance,
thus proving an important antidote to those who argue that poor
countries cannot afford to clean up their environment whilst their
economies remain under-developed.
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