Institutions and the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Deforestation: A Crosscountry Analysis for Latin America, Africa and Asia

Bhattarai, Madhusudan; Hammig, Michael D.

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00019-5

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“…Likewise, the inverted U-shaped relationship with income has also been recently shown in the case of deforestation of forest and woodlands 2 (Cropper and Griffiths;Koop and Tole, 1999;Mather, et al, 1999;Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001). However, such…”

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confidence: 73%

“…This is an important difference between models explaining natural forest loss and deforestation of forest and woodlands as discussed in previous studies (Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001). The results from the natural forest models provide evidence that improvement of agricultural technology and modernization in farming reduces pressure on the deforestation of natural forests in tropical regions ceteris paribus.…”

Section: Individual Modelsmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…The present available evidence is mixed, and it varies depending on the sets of countries and time periods selected for the study. Some of the previous studies on economics of deforestation of forest and woodlands (Cropper and Griffiths;Koop and Tole, 1999;Mather, et al, 1999;Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001) have established an EKC relationship for deforestation. However these studies are based on FAO data on forest and woodlands area, which includes tree crop plantations.…”

Section: Governance Economic Policy and The Environmental Kuznets Cmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Some studies of the EKC for deforestation have used single-period cross-sectional data (Mather, 1999;Antle and Heidebrink, 1995) and other studies (Shafik, 1994;Cropper and Griffiths, 1994;Koop and Tole, 1999;Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001) have applied panel data techniques.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is no unanimously accepted data source for measurement of tropical forest as such. Past studies of the economics of deforestation have used FAO statistics on forest and woodlands to derive the deforestation rate (Cropper and Griffiths, 1994;Koop and Tole, 1999;Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001). This study provides a comparison with previous efforts by specifying a model with a different definition of forest area provided by WRI.…”

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confidence: 99%

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