The Causes of Tropical Deforestation : The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests

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The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique a form of environ-metrics to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.