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.
Usage
ex1122
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 11 observations on the following 4 variables.
Country
a character vector indicating the country
Debt
debt (millions of dollars)
Deforest
deforestation (thousands of ha)
Pop
population (thousands of people)
References
Gullison, R.R. and Losos, E.C. (1992). The Role of Foreign Debt in
Deforestation in Latin America, Conservation Biology7(1): 140--7.