Ricardo Leitão (MPP 2019) has conducted a study with Chatham House examining the economics of sustainable forest management in the Amazon. The study aims to inform decision-makers on the rainforest's economic value to assist them in establishing a resilient and sustainable economy for the region. It found that an estimated USD1.5 billion of revenue from the sale of timber and USD220 million in sales taxes by state governments could have been generated in one year from land that was illegally deforested in 2019.
The main findings of the study are now available on the Chatham House website.
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MPP and MSc alumnus Carlos Santiago Guzmán wins the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award
Carlos Santiago Guzmán Gutiérrez, an alumnus of the Master of Public Policy and the MSc in Public Policy Research, has received the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award for outstanding master’s thesis in Social Protection. The award recognises his MSc thesis, “Universal Social Protection Schemes in Forced Displacement Settings: Evidence from Colombia.”
