Determinants of Forest Cover and the Economics of Protection: An Application to Mexico
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and Benjamin Davis for comments and discussions on the subject. Thanks are also due to David Gray, Xiaoen Huang, and Ayo Heinegg for their significant contributions in data preparation and analysis, and to Valentino Sorani for making available the digital data on soil, land use, and precipiation used here. Emmanuel Jimenez is the project manager.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998