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This paper presents an overview of OECD analysis of progress and policies in ``enhancing environmentally sustainable growth'' in a number ofcountries. The focus of the paper is on how countries succeed in conducting cost-effective and consistent policies in the environmental and natural resource areas, not on environmental policy or outcomes per se. The chapters were tailored to focus on a small number of interesting or important themes in each country, rather than aiming at a comprehensive coverage. Four common themes nevertheless emerged: a definite trend in recent years towards the use of market-based instruments; competitiveness and distributional issuesas obstacles to policy implementation; certain sectors where policies make environmental objectives harder or more costly to achieve; attempts to design institutions or processes to achieve co-ordination across policies and sectors. These arediscussed and illustrated in turn in the paper.
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O'Brien, P., Vourc'h, A. Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth: Experience in OECD Countries. Empirica 29, 93–111 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015652901983
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