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Linking poverty, natural resources, and financial markets: a model of land use by rural households in El Salvador

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  • Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
  • Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio

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This paper posits that deforestation and poverty levels are related through an inverted-U shape --the environmental Kuznets-- curve and that access to credit shifts this curve downwards, thus positively impacting natural resource uses. This hypothesis is tested using a household panel data set from El Salvador.

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  • Maldonado, Jorge Higinio & Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio, 2004. "Linking poverty, natural resources, and financial markets: a model of land use by rural households in El Salvador," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20085, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea04:20085
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20085
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