INSIGHTS INTO ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS AND TROPICAL DEFORESTATION

Tropical deforestation continues at an unsustainable pace of 13 million hectares annually. The depletion exacerbates global environmental issues such as global warming, and extinction of endangered species. In response, the international community has implemented a few intervention schemes across tr...

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Published in:Southwestern economic review 2018-01, Vol.45, p.1-15
Main Authors: Didia, Dal, Yuan, Jing, Didia, Lydia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Debt service
Deforestation
Developing countries
Economic theory
Endangered & extinct species
Environmental impact
Forests
Global warming
Greenhouse gases
Intervention
Labor force
LDCs
Rainforests
Terms of trade
Wildlife conservation
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Summary:Tropical deforestation continues at an unsustainable pace of 13 million hectares annually. The depletion exacerbates global environmental issues such as global warming, and extinction of endangered species. In response, the international community has implemented a few intervention schemes across tropical countries. These interventions now beg the question - has anything changed about the status of tropical forests? This is the question that this study attempts to address. Employing data available from 1994-2004, our empirical estimations depart from earlier studies by revealing that investments aimed at diversifying tropical economies offer the most sustainable avenue to tropical forest conservation. More interestingly, this study reveals that labor force growth rate does not necessarily translate to increased deforestation as claimed by earlier studies.
ISSN:1941-7683
1941-7691