Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales, PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how much forest would have been preserved if there had been no payments. By...
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2008/10/01
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工作文件（编号系列）
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86279
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2014/03/26
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Disclosed
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Impact of Costa Rica's program of payments for environmental services on land use
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land use