The author believes that Brazil's Carajas regional development plan would radically transform agriculture and other sectors of the economy of the zone of its influence. Most land and financial resources would be channelled to large landholders, with less significant amounts going to small...

In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects, during 2000-2013, of the leading forest policies in the Peruvian Amazon: i) logging concessions, ii) third-party certification of concessions, and iii) Protected Areas (PAs). We find...