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Migration, remittances and forests : disentangling the impact of population and economic growth on forests

Tiwari, Sailesh; Bhattarai, Keshav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

International migration has increased rapidly in recent decades and this has been accompanied by a remarkable increase in transfers made by migrants to their home countries. This paper investigates the effect of the rural economic growth brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's...

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What drives the global"land rush"?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a"global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...

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How much is the Amazon worth ? the state of knowledge concerning the value of preserving amazon rainforests

May, Peter H.; Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira; Strand, Jon - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper surveys the current state of knowledge concerning the value of the Amazon rainforest, including a survey of work to date to quantify changes in economic values when the rainforest cover changes. The focus is on local and regional impacts of forest loss or protection, including both...

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Protected areas and deforestation : new results from high resolution panel data

Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and within 10 kilometers outside the boundary of protected...

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The effect of climate and technological uncertainty in crop yields on the optimal path of global land use

Cai, Yongyang; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Elliott, Joshua; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...

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Ecosystems -- burden or bounty ?

Damania, Richard; Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio; Glauber, A.J - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper presents a somewhat novel approach to explore the economic contribution of ecosystems. It develops linked models to capture connections between resource stocks and flows and the resulting microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts. A bioeconomic model is developed that is imbedded into a...

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Addressing additionality in REDD contracts when formal enforcement is absent

Cordero Salas, Paula; Roe, Brian; Sohngen, Brent - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The success of reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation depends on the design of an effective financial mechanism that provides landholders sufficient incentives to participate and provide additional and permanent carbon offsets. This paper proposes self-enforcing...

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Designing contracts for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Cordero Salas, Paula - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation has been identified as a cost effective element of the post-Kyoto strategy to achieve long-term climate objectives. Its success depends primarily on the design and implementation of a financial mechanism that provides...

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Economic parameters of deforestation

von Amsberg, Joachim; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994

prices that result from banning log exports increase deforestation by making forestry less profitable than competing land … intensity of forestry or alternative land uses are an ambiguous instrument for the conservation of unmanaged forests. If demand … rate can increase conversion since profits from managed forestry are higher with a lower discount rate. …

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Breaking up the collective farm : welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization

Ravallion, Martin; Van der Walle, Dominique - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

The decollectivization of agriculture in Vietnam was a crucial step in the country's transition to a market economy. But the assignment of land use rights had to be decentralized, and local cadres ostensibly had the power to corrupt this process. The authors assess the realized land...

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