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Klappentext This book examines the complex relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. The impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare, the design and coordination of optimal trade, and investment and environmental policies are analyzed. Zusammenfassung This book examines the complex relationship among trade and investment policies! as well as environmental regulations! especially for developing economies. The impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare! the design and coordination of optimal trade! and investment and environmental policies are analyzed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviated. Introduction. Chapter 1. General-equilibrium models of an economy. Chapter 2. Jobs vs. environmental preservation. Chapter 3. Jobs and environment taxes. Chapter 4. Environmental standard! tax competition and capital flows. Chapter 5. Optimal pollution and foreign-investment taxes. Chapter 6. Environmental taxes and trade-related investment measures. Chapter 7. Environmental regulations on trade and investment policies. Chapter 8. Capital mobility and pollution tax coordination. Chapter 9. Tied aid! environmental clean-up! and welfare. Chapter 10. Backward incidence of pollution control. Chapter 11. Air pollution and optimal interventions. Chapter 12. Pollution-induced uncertainty and optimal intervention policies. Chapter 13. Future research.