Economic openness under globalisation process has been instrumental for recent increased transfer of both production and consumption activities across countries. Such transfers may have been shifting associated environmental effects from one country to another. In this paper, we have developed a...

Previous cross-country regression analyses on the causes of deforestation seem to have misspecified the regression models, in which the causes at different levels are mixed, leading to flawed cause-effect relationship between the rate of deforestation and its explanatory variables. The paper...