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1. Capacity Building:

Enhancing institutional and human capacities for integrated decision making.

Country Projects
- Round One
- - Synthesis Report
- - Bangladesh
- - Chile
- - India
- - Romania
- - Uganda
- - Philippines

- Round Two

Capacity Building Task Force

Regional and International Meetings and Workshops


2. Manuals and Policy Tools:

Incorporating the Environment into economics and trade policies.

3. Partnerships and Consensus Building:

ETB works intensively with various organisations to develop synergies and build partnerships.

4. Enhancing Awareness:

Clarifying the relationships between trade, environment and development in order to design mutually supportive policies.

5. International Cooperation:

Enhancing cooperation between UNEP, governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.

ETB publications

Publications Archive
Photo of book coverEnvironmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
A Case Study on Bangladesh's
Shrimp Farming Industry


Centre for Policy Dialogue
Year of publication: 1999
Paperback 44 pages


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Who might this report interest?

- national policy makers.
- environmental impact assessment practicioners.
- trade and development specialists.
- academics.
- fisheries scientists.
- poverty alleviation specialists.
- national and international policy research institutions.

This report:

analyses the trend and structure of the export-oriented shrimp culture industry in Bangladesh against the backdrop of trade policy reform in the country;

undertakes a simple cost-benefit analysis to assess the environmental impact of shrimp cultivation;

and sets forth a policy package for sustainable shrimp culture, integrating environmental concerns and trade expansion objectives.

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