TY  - BOOK
TI  - Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capital in a Developing Country: The Case of Guatemala
T2  - Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics
SN  - 9783631753576
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Bern
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
KW  - Business & management
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Development economics & emerging economies
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - Education
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Literary studies: general
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - Armut
KW  - Bildungspolitik
KW  - Biodiversität
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Capital
KW  - Case
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Country
KW  - Developing
KW  - Economic
KW  - Formation
KW  - Forstwirtschaft
KW  - Growth
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - Human
KW  - Löning
KW  - Natürliche Ressourcen
KW  - Wirtschaftliches Wachstum
KW  - Wirtschaftswachstum
KW  - Zentralamerika
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32915
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26893/1/1003150.pdf
ER  -