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oapen-20.500.12657-268932024-03-23T11:30:12Z Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capital in a Developing Country Löning, Ludger Armut Bildungspolitik Biodiversität Biodiversity Capital Case Conservation Country Developing Economic Formation Forstwirtschaft Growth Guatemala Guatemala Human Löning Natürliche Ressourcen Wirtschaftliches Wachstum Wirtschaftswachstum Zentralamerika thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management 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. 2019-01-10 23:55 2020-01-14 16:12:28 2020-04-01T11:29:43Z 2020-04-01T11:29:43Z 2018 book 1003150 OCN: 1082940948 9783631753576 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26893 eng Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics application/pdf n/a 1003150.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b13879 10.3726/b13879 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783631753576 13 266 Bern open access
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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 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.
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