Linking poverty, natural resources, and financial markets: a model of land use by rural households in El Salvador | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
December 2004
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AGRIS:US2016211396

This paper posits that deforestation and poverty levels are related through an inverted-U shape --the environmental Kuznets-- curve and that access to credit shifts this curve downwards, thus positively impacting natural resource uses. This hypothesis is tested using a household panel data set from El Salvador.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio

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AgEcon Search

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