Deforestation, economic growth and corruption: A nonparametric analysis on the case of Amazon forest

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1285-1291

  Mendes, Cassandro Maria ^a   Junior, Sabino Porto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

corruption; deforestation; economic growth; nonparametric regression

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84856833957     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.619487     Document Type: Article

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