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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 84, Issue 1, Pages 291-309Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.10.004
Keywords
deforestation; economic development; environmental Kuznets Curve; semiparametric models
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We use a panel data set of 59 developing countries over the 1972-1994 period to study the deforestation process. Relying on both parametric and semiparametric models, we examine nonlinearities and heterogeneity in the deforestation process. We first study the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and then analyze determinants of deforestation. Our data sample provides no evidence of an EKC. We also find that political institution failures may worsen the deforestation process in developing countries. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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