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Short-term effects of national-level natural resource rents on life expectancy: A cross-country panel data analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 While a substantial amount of literature addresses the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, relatively little is known regarding the relationship between natural resource endowment and health at the population level. We construct a
Isaac Lyatuu +4 more
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The effect of natural resource rents on institutional quality in selected African countries
Sustainable FuturesThe effect of natural resource rent on institutional quality remains debatable and thus needs further investigations. Using the World Bank's world development indicator and world governance indicator data for a panel of 43 selected African countries over
Meshesha Zewdie Amare +2 more
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Resource abundance: Blessing or curse? Comparative analyses of point and diffuse resources [PDF]
HeliyonThe objective of this study is to assess the short and long run effects of renewable and non-renewable resource rents on economic growth in Cameroon. Taking crude oil rents and forest resource rents as proxies for non-renewable and renewable resources ...
Gildas Dohba Dinga +2 more
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Extract or conserve? The Hartwick-rule and sustainable environmental governance [PDF]
HeliyonThe legal safeguards for sustainable environmental governance are often inadequate, inefficient, and amenable to political maneuverings. Australia recently approved the Carmichael coal mine, rail, and expansion of the Abbot Port projects. These projects,
Iftikhar Lodhi
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Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse [PDF]
Public Choice, 2006 A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and “pointiness” to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that capture the most salient features of contests for resource rents, and show how both resource abundance and geographical clustering can be associated with intense contests and sub ...
Wick, A.K., Bulte, E.H.
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Election cycles in natural resource rents: Empirical evidence [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2016 We examine whether governments' natural resource rents are affected by upcoming elections and if so, whether the incumbent uses these additional rents for re-election purposes. Estimates of a dynamic panel model for about 60 countries for 1975-2011 suggest that elections increase natural resource rents.
Klomp, Jeroen, de Haan, Jakob
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Risks in the formation of collaboration alliance of the redistribution natural rental income [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2016 Researched and identified risks for the formation of collaboration alliance between the state, regions and extractive enterprises in the redistribution of natural resource rents. Focused attention on the negative consequences of reconciling the interests
Alexandr Telizhenko, Yuliia Halynska
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Education, Rent-Seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Empirical evidence suggests that natural resources breed corruption and reduce educational attainments, dampening economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth either through human capital or corruption.
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Resource Rents, Human Development and Economic Growth in Sudan
Economies, 2020 This study investigates the relationship between natural resource rents, human development and economic growth in Sudan using co-integration and vector error correction modelling (VECM) over the period 1970–2015.
Elwasila Saeed Elamin Mohamed
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Natural Resource Rents, Inequality, and Terrorism in Africa
Defence and Peace Economics, 2021 This study examines the impact of natural resource rents on terrorism via inequality channel in 34 African economies, straddling the period 1980–2012. This study employs a negative binomial regression, in which the following findings are established: first, the unconditional impact of natural resource rents on terrorism is found to be positive across ...
Kazeem Bello Ajide +1 more
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