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The Economic Tale of Two Amazons: Lessons in Generating Shared Prosperity While Protecting the Forest in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon

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  • Alejandro Rueda-Sanz
  • Timothy Cheston

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

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Achieving economic prosperity in the Amazon rainforest is often seen as incompatible with protecting the forest. Environmental researchers rightly warn that rapid deforestation is pushing the Amazon close to a potential tipping point of forest dieback into grassy savanna. Less has been said about what is required to generate shared prosperity in Amazonian communities. Deforestation is often treated as inevitable to serve human needs, local and global. This report synthesizes the findings of two engagements by the Growth Lab at Harvard University that study the nature of economic growth in two Amazonian contexts: Loreto in Peru, and Caquetá, Guaviare, and Putumayo, in Colombia. The aim of these engagements is to leverage the Growth Lab's global research into the nature of economic growth to apply those methods to the unique challenge of developing paths to prosperity in the Amazon in ways that do not harm the forest. This report compares and contrasts the findings from the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon to assess the extent to which there are generalizable lessons on the relationship between economic growth and forest protection in the Amazon.

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  • Alejandro Rueda-Sanz & Timothy Cheston, 2023. "The Economic Tale of Two Amazons: Lessons in Generating Shared Prosperity While Protecting the Forest in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon," CID Working Papers 145a, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
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