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Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capital in a Developing Country The Case of Guatemala

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Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. Human capital formation is a key element in a development strategy that includes natural resource conservation within the framework of sustained econo...

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Main Author: Löning, Ludger (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2018
Series:Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics 13
Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Education
Politics & government
Economic growth
Development economics & emerging economies
Environmental economics
Business & management
Armut
Bildungspolitik
Biodiversität
Biodiversity
Capital
Case
Conservation
Country
Developing
Economic
Formation
Forstwirtschaft
Growth
Guatemala
Human
Löning
Natürliche Ressourcen
Wirtschaftliches Wachstum
Wirtschaftswachstum
Zentralamerika
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Summary:Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. Human capital formation is a key element in a development strategy that includes natural resource conservation within the framework of sustained economic growth and poverty alleviation. Consequently, it is not by chance that Guatemala is experiencing both minimal per capital income growth and high deforestation while having one of the lowest educational levels in Latin America. However, since many assumptions about educational benefits are controversial and many aspects depend on broader issues, human capital formation can only be one piece in a multidimensional puzzle. This study is organized into three parts, each one of which can be read independently: first, a macroeconomic assessment of education and other factors involved in the country's growth trajectory; second, a rural analysis indicating the root causes of deforestation and the role education can play to slow down habitat loss; third, the highlighting of some elements indispensable to reform and to subsequent improvement of the quality of rural schooling.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (266 p.)
ISBN:b13879
9783631753576
Access:Open Access

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