[2571] Cars, duties, congestion, pollution, revenue and income effect

Posted in Economics on July 25th, 2012 1 Comment »

Several new points were raised with regards to my post on duties and cars yesterday. One was pollution, two was government revenue and three, in one way or another, income effect. It is not exactly income effect but close enough. Concern number one is easy. But let us state the pollution concern. The concern is [...]

[1145] Of haze in Thailand; bad news for Malaysia

Posted in ASEAN, Environment on March 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »

Is there hope for us not to go though the hazy experience we had gone through in the previous years? I have strong feeling that the answer is unfortunately no. Even if Indonesia rectified the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, chances are, it would change nothing. For last few weeks have seen northern Thailand [...]