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Deforestation, economic growth and corruption: a nonparametric analysis on the case of Amazon forest
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13504851.2011.619487
ISSN1466-4291
AutoresCassandro Maria da Veiga Mendes, Sabino Porto,
Tópico(s)Economic and Environmental Valuation
ResumoAbstract This article aims to analyse the relationship between deforestation, corruption and economic growth. We focused our analysis on the Brazilian municipalities situated in the Amazon region. We used the cross-sectional data from 538 municipalities in the Legal Amazon area for the year 2004. We constructed the municipal corruption index based on the objective data delivered by the reports from Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU). We performed a nonparametric analysis, that is, we applied the Generalized Additive Model (GAM). We found statistically significant effects of the economic growth rate on the level of deforestation. However, the corruption seems to have no significant impact. Given the first results, we divided our data and analysed just the data from 25 municipalities from the states Pará and Matogrosso. In the second approach, corruption was statistically significant. Keywords: deforestationcorruptionnonparametric regressioneconomic growthJEL Classification: C14Q23Q32
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