Economic growth, biodiversity conservation, and the formation of human capital in a developing country. The case of Guatemala.

Autor/in	Löning, Ludger J.
Titel	Economic growth, biodiversity conservation, and the formation of human capital in a developing country. The case of Guatemala.
Quelle	Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang (2018), XVIII, 248 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Dissertation, Universität Göttingen, 2004.
Reihe	Göttingen studies in development economics. 13
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISBN	3-631-52607-5; 978-3-631-52607-1; 978-3-631-75357-6
DOI	10.3726/b13879
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Bildungspolitik; Artenvielfalt; Entwicklungsland; Entwaldung; Bildungsinvestition; Forstwirtschaft; Investition; Produktivität; Wirtschaftswachstum; Dissertation; Hochschulschrift; Guatemala
Abstract	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.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2019/2