ex1122: Deforestation and Debt
Description
It has been theorized that developing countries cut down their forests
to pay off foreign debt. Data are debt, deforestation, and population
from 11 Latin American nations.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.References
Gullison, R.R. and Losos, E.C. (1992). The Role of Foreign Debt in
Deforestation in Latin America, Conservation Biology
7(1): 140--7.