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

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作者
Mendes, Cassandro Maria [1 ]
Porto Junior, Sabino [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Dept Appl Econ, BR-90040000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
关键词
deforestation; corruption; nonparametric regression; economic growth;
D O I
10.1080/13504851.2011.619487
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F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
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 Uniao (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 Para and Matogrosso. In the second approach, corruption was statistically significant.
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页码:1285 / 1291
页数:7
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