Foreign Direct Investment and Forest Land: A Sectoral Investigation

• Main Authors: Doytch, Nadia, Ashraf, Ayesha, Nguyen, Canh Phuc
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: FDI ecological halo; Forest ecological footprint; Forest land; Sectoral FDI; Economic Policy; Environmental Policy; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/285; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/asog-pubs/article/1287/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S2665972724000217_main.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This is a study of the effects of sectoral FDI inflows on the rates of change of forest land and the ecological footprint of economic activity measured in forest land. We test the “FDI ecological halo” hypothesis (Doytch, 2020) for nine distinct sectoral FDI inflows, including agricultural FDI, mini...