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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala
Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the case of Guatemala strengthening the rural non- farm sector and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407648
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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en
Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the case of Guatemala strengthening the rural non- farm sector and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407693
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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en
Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the case of Guatemala strengthening the rural non- farm sector and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556109
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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects
Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004
As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556123
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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003
Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005
The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118923
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The Impact of Education on Economic Growth in Guatemala: A Time- Series Analysis Applying an Error-Correction Methodology
Loening, Ludger J. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119126
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Poverty, Inequality, and Redistribution Under Lexicographic Social Welfare
Briones, Roehlano M. - EconWPA - 2004
Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076922
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936
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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004
, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076938
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Measuring Benefits, Tracing Distributional Effects, and Affecting Distributional Outcomes
Londero, Elio H - EconWPA - 2004
This paper shows the differences between how benefits are estimated and how they are distributed, calls attention to the policy variables that are crucial in explaining certain distributional outcomes, explores the importance of looking at the demand for characteristics when trying to benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125909