00858nam a2200121Ia 4500 20260716043328.0 MARKANDYA, Anil Is free trade compatible with sustainable development. 1994 Identifies three themes central to sustainable development: ensuring that future generations do not suffer as a result of present actions; that resources are used as efficiently as possible; and that development paths are not so inequitable as to push poor countries and poor individuals into environmentally degrading actions. Addresses two main questions: whether trade liberalisation conflicts with the goals of sustainable development; and, whether the instruments of economic and social policy that are required to achieve sustainable development result in a reduction in trade. 3/7/00 M2LMGR A 44984 44984