The World Bank’s project to improve the integration of the environment in its Country Assistance Strategies has a component to examine decisions made in environmental management which have had significant negative or positive impacts on economic development. One is examining the environmental consequences of shrimp aquaculture in Thailand.
A Bank spokesperson said that no external organisations in Thailand or elsewhere were being consulted about this study; the Bank team is relying on existing written sources.
For more information, contact Kirk Hamilton, World Bank Environmental Economics Department, khamilton@worldbank.org.
