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The Effects of Natural Resources on Urbanization, Concentration, and Living Standards in Africa

World Development, 2017
Summary This paper examines the effects of natural resource abundance on urbanization and living standards in Africa. Our central hypothesis is that the exploitation of natural resources in a context of poor governance quality creates the conditions for rapid urbanization and urban concentration, and ultimately lowers living standards in primal ...
Christian Hubert Ebeke   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Types, Concentration, Diffusion and Spatial Structure Evolution of Natural Gas Resource Flow in China

Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2016
This paper analyzed the development of different types of natural gas flow zones in China, and then di- vided all provinces into four flow types: non-flow zones, output centers, input centers and exchanging centers. Next, we analyzed the concentration and diffusion characteristics, current spatial pattern and evolution of source and terminal regions of
Wang Yiqiang, Zhao Yuan, Xu Xin
exaly   +2 more sources

Ethnic diversity, concentration of political power and the curse of natural resources

Economia Politica, 2022
The empirical evidence suggests that the resource rich countries tend to have poor economic perfor- mance and higher rent seeking. In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium model explaining why natural resources turn out to be a curse in an economy divided into two classes: elite and workers.
Waqar Wadho, Sadia Hussain
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Resource concentration, institutional quality and the natural resource curse

Economic Systems, 2013
Abstract Employing panel data from 14 regions in Kazakhstan, this investigation aims to discover the effect of energy (point-source) and agricultural (diffuse) resource abundance on economic growth through institutional quality. A fixed effects panel data model and Roger's standard errors model are used to consider the possible endogeneity problem ...
Yessengali Oskenbayev   +2 more
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Natural Resources, Export Concentration and Financial Development [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
Recent studies indicate that the natural resource curse, that is, the negative link between resource abundance and growth, may operate through a country’s financial system. Scholars show that resource-abundant economies suffer from lower financial development, which may indirectly affect welfare.
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Resource utilization of natural pyrite (FeS2) as the tailings after flotation of natural sphalerite (ZnS) for reclaiming high concentrations of gaseous Hg0 from Zn smelting flue gas

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022
Abstract Reducing Hg emissions from Zn smelting flue gas (Zn-SFG) is rigorously stipulated by the Minamata Convention. Currently, a little natural pyrite (FeS2) as the tailings after flotation of natural sphalerite (ZnS) is often regarded as solid wastes and discarded; therefore, another utilization of these natural FeS2 is preferable. In this study,
Qianqian Hong   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Evaluation of a sequential biological concentration system in natural resource management of a saline irrigated area

Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 2005
Waste-water need not be disposed to an evaporation basin until all useful benefit has been extracted from the waste stream. Sequential Biological Concentration (SBC) of saline drainage streams offers the ability to create a number of financial opportunities, whilst concentrating the waste stream to a manageable volume. In this paper, we present field
J Blackwell   +3 more
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The Urban Concentration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Agricultural and Natural Resource Industries

2019
This study draws on detailed information on inventor address from 34,196 patented biotechnology inventions, made in the United States between 1970 and 2010, as indicators of innovation and entrepreneurship in three largely rural industries—(1) agriculture, (2) bioenergy, and (3) environment.
Ghulam Samad, Gregory D. Graff
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