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The impact of environmental regulations on the welfare of Malaysian palm oil growers, producers, and refiners are evaluated in an open-economy model. The estimated incremental effects of effluent standards and changes have been specifically rather small, with the exception of those upon the growers, but the cumulative effects have been considerable.
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Dr Khalid Abdul Rahim is a member of staff in the Department of Natural Resource Economics at the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. This article is based on part of the work undertaken for his PhD dissertation at the University of Illinois, USA.
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Rahim, K.A. Internalisation of externalities: Who bears the cost of pollution control?. Environmentalist 11, 19–25 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01263193
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