We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing … tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

Whether the Environmental Kutznets curve relationship holds for biodiversity or not remains an open issue. While there … are several studies investigating the EKC relationship for biodiversity, they suffer from some limitations and the … empirical evidence is inconclusive. More specifically, with few exceptions, the previous EKC studies for biodiversity looked …