The deforestation-income relationship: evidence of deforestation convergence across developing countries

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Assa, Boka Stéphane Kévin
Copyright Year	2020
Description	The importance of forest conservation in the fight against emissions from deforestation and forest degradation has led to reexamination of the deforestation and economic development relationship. For this purpose, we use the recent method of long-term growth rate developed by Stern et al. (2017) on 85 tropical developing countries over the period 1990–2010. Results show that the EKC is not significant. However, we find a beta convergence across developing countries in terms of deforestation per capita. In other words, these countries converge in terms of policies that prevent deforestation and forest degradation. This implies that, just as with growth effects, beta convergence effects are also important in explaining changes in forest cover in tropical developing countries. The convergence effect in forest cover change may be consistent with the forest transition hypothesis.
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Ending Page	150
Page Count	20
Starting Page	131
ISSN	1355770X
e-ISSN	14694395
DOI	10.1017/s1355770x2000039x
Journal	Environment and Development Economics
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	26
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2021-04-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Environment and Development Economics Agricultural Economics Environmental Kuznets Curve run Growth Rate
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Economics and Econometrics Environmental Science