Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

World Development

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 265-285

  Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo ^a   Hanauer, Merlin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Impacts; Poverty; Program evaluation; Protected areas; South America

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; NATURE CONSERVATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PROTECTED AREA;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 84870302423     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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