Under this program, you have been selected to go as a legal advisor to a small country in western Africa to help officials there with development of their environmental laws. The country is small and has a population of 10 million. Its economy has been based mainly on self sustaining agriculture, but the country is undergoing rapid industrialization. It hopes to become the major supplier of small industrial products for its region. The general level of education in the country's three cities is very high, with three good local universities and many members of the upper class holding advanced degrees from American and European universities.
Educational level is lower in the countryside.
Local officials seek your assistance in developing their environmental law for industrial sources of pollution. In the other countries they have looked at, either there has been no rapid industrial expansion or the pollution from industrialization has in fact been largely uncontrolled. Second, the local Manufacturers Association is asking for cost-benefit analysis of all environmental standards. The local officials have asked you to prepare a memo of no more than four typed, single spaced pages analyzing which of the above approaches they should take in their new environmental laws and why. No other research is necessary.