Contribution of Agriculture to Deforestation in the Tropics: A Theoretical Investigation
2017-12-17 11:41:02 Viewed: 4250 Downloads: 2097-
Contribution of Agriculture to Deforestation in the Tropics: A Theoretical Investigation
George Adu, George Marbuah and Justice Tei Mensah
Publisher:
Pub: 2017-12-17 11:41:02
Email it to me(Requires login) Download this PDF file
-
This paper compares the deforestation path taken by profit maximizing agricultural firms in tropical regions to the path that will maximize social welfare based on optimal control techniques. We set up a theoretical problem where the socially optimal deforestation path that maximizes the discounted sum of net benefit of forest land use to society diverges from that of a farmer. We arrived at this conclusion after solving for the optimal choice of deforestation for both the private farmer and a social planner. The key source of this divergence in deforestation path is that the cost of deforestation is external to the farmer. The paper concluded that the farmer’s deforestation path leads to socially suboptimal outcome. Fiscal policy measures and public ownerships are recommended to deal with externalities that are inherent in forest land use.
Email it to me(Requires login) Download this PDF file
-
Email it to me(Requires login)
Download this PDF file
-
References are not ready for this file yet, please refer to reference from the PDF file
-
Keywords
Agriculture, Deforestation, Optimal control
Other Informations
-
Author Published Papers
-
The Looting Machine:Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
Publisher:
Viewed: 10965 times, Downloads: 7082 times
-
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 10599 times, Downloads: 1444 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 10401 times, Downloads: 2211 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 8496 times, Downloads: 1832 times
-
Thokozani Simelane and Mohamed Abdel-Rahman (eds)
Publisher:
Viewed: 8199 times, Downloads: 1806 times
-
Highlife Saturday night: Popular music and social change in urban Ghana
Publisher:
Viewed: 7927 times, Downloads: 1795 times
-
The struggle over work: The ‘end of work’ and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies
Publisher:
Viewed: 7561 times, Downloads: 1945 times
-
In defence of post-Keynesian and heterodox economics - responses to their critics
Frederic S. Lee and Marc Lavoie
Publisher:
Viewed: 7238 times, Downloads: 2143 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 7196 times, Downloads: 3231 times
-
Aderanti Adepoju, Tom van Naerssen and Annelies Zoomer
Publisher:
Viewed: 7181 times, Downloads: 2037 times
-
Jolle Demmers, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto and Barbara Hogenboom
Publisher:
Viewed: 7122 times, Downloads: 5708 times
-
Regional integration and social cohesion: Perspectives from the developing world
Candice Moore, Brussels P. I.E and Peter Lang
Publisher:
Viewed: 7114 times, Downloads: 2165 times
-
The forgotten people: Political banishment under apartheid
Publisher:
Viewed: 7099 times, Downloads: 1855 times
-
Ethiopia’s Investment Prospects: A Sectoral Overview
Publisher:
Viewed: 7083 times, Downloads: 3481 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 6966 times, Downloads: 1992 times
-
Livelihood Strategies in African Cities: The Case of Residents in Bamenda, Cameroon
Publisher:
Viewed: 6903 times, Downloads: 1898 times
-
Development dilemmas: The methods and political ethics of growth policy
Publisher:
Viewed: 6870 times, Downloads: 2418 times
-
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism.
Publisher:
Viewed: 6830 times, Downloads: 2250 times
-
Politics, disability and social inclusion: People with different abilities in the 21st century
Publisher:
Viewed: 6811 times, Downloads: 1886 times
-
Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta
Okechukwu Ukaga, Ukoha O. Ukiwo and Ibaba Samuel Ibaba (eds.)
Publisher:
Viewed: 6803 times, Downloads: 4180 times
-
Food Security in Africa and Asia: Strategies for Small-scale Agricultural Development
Publisher:
Viewed: 6794 times, Downloads: 2468 times
-
Integral green Zimbabwe: An african phoenix rising
Elizabeth Mamukwa, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer (eds)
Publisher:
Viewed: 6751 times, Downloads: 2346 times
-
Institutional analysis of condominium management system in Amhara region: the caseof Bahir Dar city
Publisher:
Viewed: 6746 times, Downloads: 2436 times
-
Economics of the 1%: How mainstream economics serves the rich, obscures reality and distorts policy
Publisher:
Viewed: 6721 times, Downloads: 3283 times
-
Peri-urban Agriculture: The Case of Market Gardening in Niamey, Niger
Ludovic Andres and Philippe Lebailly
Publisher:
Viewed: 6714 times, Downloads: 3217 times
-
The Quest for Equity in the Provision of Health Care in Ghana
Publisher:
Viewed: 6626 times, Downloads: 1663 times
-
The effect of funding strategy on the lending patterns of banks in Ghana
Angela Azumah Alu,Mohammed Amidu, K. A. Osei and Ransford Kuipo
Publisher:
Viewed: 6554 times, Downloads: 2099 times
-
The science of subjective well-being
Michael Eid and Randy J. Larsen
Publisher:
Viewed: 6536 times, Downloads: 1970 times
-
Walk with the devil: My endless struggle against the cunning and traps of the devil
Publisher:
Viewed: 6494 times, Downloads: 1974 times
-
Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takorad, Ghana
Publisher:
Viewed: 6259 times, Downloads: 1958 times
-
Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015
Matthew Clarke and Simon Feeny
Publisher:
Viewed: 6213 times, Downloads: 4562 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 6206 times, Downloads: 2768 times
-
Tribute to a true and loyal friend
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 6126 times, Downloads: 1972 times
-
Mohammad H. Sepahvanda and Roujman Shahbazian
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 5769 times, Downloads: 6491 times
-
Local Government Finance: A Comparative Study
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 5528 times, Downloads: 1923 times
-
Knowledge sovereignty among African cattle herders
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 5330 times, Downloads: 1372 times
-
Women and the informal economy in urban Africa: from the margins to the centre
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 5054 times, Downloads: 0 times
-
Real estate, construction and economic development in emerging market economies
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 4978 times, Downloads: 1752 times
-
Table of contents for the December Issue, Volume 11 Issue 2, December 2019
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 4781 times, Downloads: 1639 times
-
On the theory of optimal depletion of an exhaustible resource: the case of oil in Ghana
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 4753 times, Downloads: 2046 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 4708 times, Downloads: 2153 times
-
Contribution of Agriculture to Deforestation in the Tropics: A Theoretical Investigation
George Adu, George Marbuah and Justice Tei Mensah
Publisher:
Viewed: 4251 times, Downloads: 2097 times
-
Publisher:
Viewed: 4154 times, Downloads: 1763 times
-
China’s Second Continent. How a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa
Howard W. French and Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher:
Viewed: 4113 times, Downloads: 2364 times
-
Africa’s Failed Economic Development Trajectory: A Critique
Publisher:
Viewed: 4093 times, Downloads: 2988 times
-
Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia
Publisher:
Viewed: 4017 times, Downloads: 1642 times
-
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping our World
Publisher:
Viewed: 3860 times, Downloads: 2324 times
-
Characteristics of Urban Food insecurity: The Case of Kinshasa
Philippe Lebailly and Damien Muteba
Publisher:
Viewed: 3783 times, Downloads: 3385 times
-
Comment on 'Poverty in Africa: How have growth and inequality mattered?'
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 3783 times, Downloads: 9 times
-
Hemant R. Ojha, Andy Hall and Rasheed V. Sulaiman (eds.)
Publisher:
Viewed: 3773 times, Downloads: 2029 times
-
Bradley Bordiss and Jannie Rossouw
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 3767 times, Downloads: 1255 times
-
Agricultural development in China and Africa: A comparative analysis
Li Xiaoyun, Qi Gubo, Tang Lixia, Zhao Lixia, Jin Leshan, Guo Zhanfen and Wu Jin
Publisher:
Viewed: 3729 times, Downloads: 1593 times
-
Dynamics of current account deficits over the economic cycle of countries with an emergence horizon
Publisher: African Review of Economics and Finance
Viewed: 3631 times, Downloads: 1188 times
-
-
Article Statistics (Metrics)
Viewed: 3631 times
Downloads: 1188 times
-
Citations
-
Licencing
-
Keywords
Current account deficit; Business cycle; countercyclical; procyclical; Quantile regression