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Rafael Alvarado
Researcher at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
Publications - 108
Citations - 2517
Rafael Alvarado is an academic researcher from Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Environmental degradation. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 43 publications receiving 615 citations.
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Interplay between technological innovation and environmental quality: Formulating the SDG policies for next 11 economies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have revisited the technology policies of these countries, and in doing so, they have tried to address the problem of environmental degradation, while addressing the issues of sustained economic growth, clean and affordable energy, and quality education.
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Ecological footprint, economic complexity and natural resources rents in Latin America: Empirical evidence using quantile regressions
Rafael Alvarado,Brayan Tillaguango,Vishal Dagar,Munir Ahmad,Cem Işık,Priscila Méndez,Elisa Toledo +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of economic complexity and the natural resources rents on the per capita ecological footprint in Latin America was examined and it was shown that the level of inequality for the utilization of region-specific climatic distribution of natural resources increases the ecological footprint while in the upper quantiles, it decreases the same.
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Energy efficiency and sustainable development goals (SDGs)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to connect sustainable development goals with energy efficiency for 20 Asian and Pacific (AP) countries using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2000 to 2018.
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Latin America
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in 19 Latin American countries using panel data econometrics, and found robust empirical evidence that suggests that FDI is not statistically significant in aggregated form.
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Environmental degradation and real per capita output: New evidence at the global level grouping countries by income levels
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between real per capita output and carbon dioxide emissions, both globally and by groups of countries using panel data from 151 countries for the period 1980-2016.