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THE WORLD BANK POLICY PLANNING AND RESEARCH STAFF Public Disclosure Authorized Environment Department Economic Analysis of Sustainable· Growth and Sustainable Development Public Disclosure Authorized JohnPezzey Public Disclosure Authorized March 1989 1ment Department Working Paper No. 15 ) n3 .15 Public Disclosure Authorized --,-·., use. The views and interpretations herein are those of I to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations or to SLC004236 This paper has been prepared by John Pezzey, a consultant to the Environment Department of the World Bank. He is an economist specializing on the roles of environmental resources and discount rates in growth theory, and is a visiting research fellow in the Environment and Behavior Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The author is grateful to Robert Ayres, Edward Barbier, Herman Daly, Salah El Serafy, John English, Jonathan Fisher, Philip Graves, Stein Hansen, David Heigham, Jeffrey Krautkraemer, Nancy Olewiler, David Pearce, Henry Peskin, Barry Poulson, Ray Prince, David Ulph, Jeremy Warford and Tomasz Zylicz for helpful comments and discussions on earlier drafts of this paper. Departmental Working Papers are not formal publications of the World Bank. They present preliminary and unpolished results of country analysis or research that is circulated to encourage discussion and comment; citation and the use of such a paper should take account of its provisional content. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author, and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent.
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