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Spatial Interactions in Tropical Deforestation: An application to the Brazilian Amazon
SA, Saraly ANDRADE DE; DELACOTE, Philippe; KERE, Eric … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2015
This paper investigates the mechanisms determining spatial interactions in deforestation, and its transmission channels …, using data from Brazil. Our preliminary results confirm the hypothesis that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is … characterized by complementarity, meaning that deforestation in a particular municipality tends to increase deforestation in its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211784
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The environmental resource curse hypothesis: the forest case
Damette, Olivier; Delacote, Philippe - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2009
forest endowment and forest harvesting affect deforestation? Our empirical results show that countries with important forest … curse. Moreover, countries implied in important timber certification processes have lower deforestation levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998781
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Public spending, credit and natural capital : does access to capital foster deforestation?
Combes, Jean-Louis; Delacote, Philippe; Motel-Combes, … - In: Economic modelling 73 (2018), pp. 306-316
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100517
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Public expenses, credit and natural capital: Substitution or complementarity?
Combes, Jean-Louis; Delacote, Philippe; Combes, Pascale … - HAL - 2014
Improving access to capital through credit and public spendings is an important step toward development and poverty … between financial development, public spendings and deforestation. Are they substitute or complement? Our econometric analysis … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899772
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Global boom, local impacts: Mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011
Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014
study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314151
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Resource-Abundance and Economic Growth in the U.S.
Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004
It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis focuses on initial income levels to account for the variability in income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324936
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Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse?
Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2003
We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325038
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Can Norway be a role model for natural resource abundant countries?
Cappelen, Ådne; Mjøset, Lars - 2009
according to UNDP's human development indicator. We argue that this development is related to the growth of the Norwegian … natural resource-based development? Nowadays the standard answer to this question is good institutions and clever policies. In … this paper we detail the institutions and policies that may explain the peculiar development success of Norway. There are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273453
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Resource-Richness and Economic Growth in Contemporary U.S.
Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777643
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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011
Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014
study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286241