Marine protected areas (MPAs) provide both conservation and economic benefits. Recent international conservation actors have called for a dramatic increase in the area of MPAs from almost 8% to 30% of marine area by 2030 in a policy called 30X30. Both the economics and conservation science...

This paper applies time series data extracted from different global open data sources to investigate GDP per capita convergence for coffee producing and re-exporting countries. Inspired by the Solow-Swan model, the paper tests the proposition that poorer countries grow faster than richer...