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Article: Hazardous Waste Management.(developing countries)
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- Environment
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- November 1, 1999
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Lessons from Eight Countries
In 1995, Indonesia's economy was growing at more than seven percent per year. In the previous two decades, the share of manufacturing in the country's gross domestic product had nearly tripled, and the fraction of the population in poverty had fallen from 60 percent to 15 percent.(1) But with prosperity came increasing concern about the by-products of an economic boom, including pollution from the uncontrolled dumping of hazardous waste. By the end of 1995, the government had promulgated two waves of comprehensive hazardous waste regulations to be implemented by the country's four year old environmental regulatory agency. A private ...