TY - BOOK ID - 137411807 TI - Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness? AU - Kahn, Matthew Edwin. AU - Lozano Gracia, Nancy. AU - Soppelsa, Maria Edisa. PY - 2019 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - City Development Strategy KW - Environment KW - Environmental Sustainability KW - Pollution KW - Pollution Management KW - Urban Development KW - Urban Environment KW - Urbanization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137411807 AB - This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those cities that specialize in heavy industrial activity will gain from a manufacturing boom but are more likely to be polluted than a city that specializes in the service economy and one that makes investments in regulations to reduce the social costs of power generation, transportation, and household services. The paper explores three main questions. First, why does pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have cities been slow to adopt cost-effective regulatory strategies? ER -