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dc.contributor.authorLöning, Ludger
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-10 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-14 16:12:28
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T11:29:43Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T11:29:43Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1003150
dc.identifierOCN: 1082940948en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26893
dc.description.abstractCan 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGoettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growthen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Managementen_US
dc.subject.otherArmut
dc.subject.otherBildungspolitik
dc.subject.otherBiodiversität
dc.subject.otherBiodiversity
dc.subject.otherCapital
dc.subject.otherCase
dc.subject.otherConservation
dc.subject.otherCountry
dc.subject.otherDeveloping
dc.subject.otherEconomic
dc.subject.otherFormation
dc.subject.otherForstwirtschaft
dc.subject.otherGrowth
dc.subject.otherGuatemala
dc.subject.otherGuatemala
dc.subject.otherHuman
dc.subject.otherLöning
dc.subject.otherNatürliche Ressourcen
dc.subject.otherWirtschaftliches Wachstum
dc.subject.otherWirtschaftswachstum
dc.subject.otherZentralamerika
dc.titleEconomic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capital in a Developing Country
dc.title.alternativeThe Case of Guatemala
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3726/b13879
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555
oapen.relation.isbn9783631753576
oapen.series.number13
oapen.pages266
oapen.place.publicationBern
oapen.identifier.ocn1082940948


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