Structural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations
2001
K.D. Pandey | D. Wheeler
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. Indeed environmental groups express particular concern about Structural Adjustment Loans' (SAL) impacts on the rate of deforestation.The findings of this article are based on the combination of complete records of Bank SAL operations with a 38-year socioeconomic database for 112 developing countries.The article finds that:adjustment has greatly affected imports, exports, consumption, and production in many forest products sectors some activities have increased and some have declined, but overall the effects have balanced each other. growth in roundwood production is explained well by population growth, urbanization, and world demand for forest productsadjustment has not promoted domestic deforestation, but it has increased net imports of wood products, implying some displacement of pressure onto other countries’ forest resourcesdevaluations have significantly increased the exploitation of forest resources
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