Manuel Pastor

TL;DR: This article examined the disproportionate siting and minority move-in hypotheses in Los Angeles County by reconciling tract geography and data over three decades with firm-level information on the initial siting dates for toxic storage and disposal facilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ recent advances in air emissions inventories and show that hazard proximity with quantifiable health risks can be linked to quantifiable risks, but they do not systematically link hazard proximity to health risks.

TL;DR: A political economy and social inequality framework is proposed to guide future research that could better elucidate the origins of environmental inequality and reasons for its persistence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used U.S. EPA's National Air Toxi Index (NAATI) to study cumulative exposure in minority neighborhoods due to multiple sources of pollution.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the debate about the effects of IMF-sponsored stabilization programs in the Third World and concluded that IMF programs are associated with insignificant changes in the current account, significant improvements in the overall balance of payments, increases in inflation, mixed effects on growth, and a strong and consistent pattern of reduction in labor share of income.