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  Paper tiger, hidden dragons 2: APRIL fools - The forest destruction, social conflict and financial crisis of Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd (APRIL), and the role of financial institutions and paper merchants

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  Latest report from Friends of the Earth's Coporates Campaign looking at linkages between financial institutions, pulp and paper manufaturers and paper merchants in forest destruction. The report focuses on the activities of Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Ltd (APRIL) - one of the worlds largest pulp and paper companies - and their subsidiary operations in Sumatra.
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  Roads, population pressures and deforestation in Thailand, 1976 - 1989

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Population pressures play less of a role in deforestation than earlier studies of Thailand found. Between 1976 and 1989, Thailand lost 28 percent ofits forest cover.
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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.
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  Trial by fire: forest fires and forestry policy in Indonesia's era of crisis and reform

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000

  This report examines the destruction and systematic plunder of Asia's greatest rainforests under former Indonesian president Suharto. The report focuses on the 1997-1998 forest fires in Indonesia that resulted in the burning of 10 million hectares of forests.
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  Structural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations

  World Bank, 2001

  This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.
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  Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation: a spatial model of land use in Belize

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas?Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation.
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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  Rates and Processes of Amazon Deforestation

  Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, 1997
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  How the location of roads and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand

  World Bank, 2001

  This article discusses the extent to which the location of roads s and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand. The article stresses that establishing protected areas (national parks together with wildlife sanctuaries) in North Thailand did not reduce the likelihood of forest clearing, but wildlife sanctuaries may have reduced the probability of deforestation.

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