<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rabindran, S.G.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asb@cgiar.org</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Essays in Empirical Environmental Economics: GIS-Econometric Analysis of Indonesia's Fires, Bolivia's Deforestation and Mexico's Trade with the U.S.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Economics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environmental</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Indonesia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land fires</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pollution</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June 2001</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8578</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Doctor of Philosophy in Economies</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">146</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This thesis examines three environmental issues in developing countries. The first essay examines land fires in Indonesia that inflict severe air pollution-related damage on Southeast Asia annually. Conservative estimates of losses in 1997 alone were US $667 million for Indonesia (0.67% of GDP) and an additional US $12 million for Singapore.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>