South Americans Shut Door on Toxic Imports Facing a Growing Wave of Toxic Waste, Latin America Is the Latest Region to Abandon 'Development at All Costs' and Fight Back by Banning Toxic Waste Imports and Cleaning Up Pollution at Home

Julia Michaels, Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor

WORLD Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers hit a raw nerve in Latin America last month when a memo he wrote on toxic waste disposal was leaked to The Economist magazine.

Focusing on the issue from a purely economic standpoint, the memo questioned whether the bank might do well to encourage waste transfer to less developed countries, where pollution and long-term threats to health have less priority than in developed countries.

The memo caused a furor in this region, which is just now beginning to address the problem of toxic waste, both locally produced and imported. Partly in response, a Brazilian official said his country will propose a ban on international …

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Publication information: Article title: South Americans Shut Door on Toxic Imports Facing a Growing Wave of Toxic Waste, Latin America Is the Latest Region to Abandon 'Development at All Costs' and Fight Back by Banning Toxic Waste Imports and Cleaning Up Pollution at Home. Contributors: Julia Michaels, Monitor - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: March 1, 1992. Page number: 4. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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