Economic policy and air pollution in Costa Rica

Abstract

The transformation of the productive structure of the country, in the last years, has been carried out to coast of the pillaging of the natural resources, carrying a bigger pollution of the air. The different productive activities contribute from or an way to this contamination and every time that they increase their production, they increase their emissions. Economic decisions politics’ implemented in the country, hurry or no hurry to the productive sectors, causing increases or decreases of the pollution of the air. To demonstrate such a relationship the effects of three scenarios of economic politics they are investigated; using a Model Macro-Econometric, together with a model of Input-output, using six counts satellites of contamination of the air: Particles in suspension (PART), dioxide of carbon (CO2), oxidize of nitrogen (NOX) hydrocarbons (HC), sulfurous anhydride (SO2) and monoxide of carbon (CO). The scenarios are: an increase of the exchange rate, moderate increase of the credit and a bigger commercial opening. The obtained results, they allow to identify a growing tendency of the pollution, product of an expansible effect of the production, the diversity of the industry, the increase of the self-driven park and the population growth; increasing the pollution beyond what the simple economic growth would make wait.