Green economy as an environment-based framework for Indonesia's economic reposition structure

Evi Susanti Tasri (Faculty of Economics, Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, Indonesia)
Syafruddin Karimi (Faculty of Economics, Ekonomi, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia)

Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Volume 6 Issue 1, 2014

Economic development should consider the negative effects it creates. This will help to achieve a sustainable economic development. The green economic conceptcan be a solution to development process that works on natural resources conservation. This paper proposes a discriminant analysis to describe the green economic development. It analyses a group of countries, classified by their income levels. The analysis result suggests that environment factors such asemissions and area of the forest are important variables.