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Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023 As regards the question whether natural resource affluence is a benediction or curse to sustainable development, the jury's verdict is still awaited. While we impatiently await the jury's verdict, this study provides empirical evidence that Mother Nature
Elvis Dze Achuo +4 more
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Natural Resources Revenues, Agriculture Development and Urbanization in African Countries
New Medit, 2020 This paper analyzes the mechanism through which natural resource abundance leads to a poor agricultural performance and a rapid urbanization in African countries.
Jamal AZIZI
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Accumulation of Tangible and Non-tangible Capital in Iran: Emphasizing on Resource Rents [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2018 Natural resources generate the major part of national wealth in resource-rich developing countries. Based on economic theories, if natural resource rents are reinvested continuously in other forms of capital, such countries can benefit from these ...
farzaneh ahmadian yazdi +4 more
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Interconnections between governance shortcomings and resource curse in a resource-dependent economy [PDF]
PSU Research ReviewPurpose – The paper assesses the role of natural resource rents in Nigeria's economy through the channel of institutional quality. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is done with the use of autoregressive-distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing ...
Fisayo Fagbemi, Richard Angelous Kotey
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Dilemma of Natural Resource Abundance: A Case Study of Kuwait
SAGE Open, 2020 There is a lively debate about the relationship between a nation’s natural resource abundance and economic growth. Some view natural resource abundance as a curse, whereas others view it as a blessing.
Ruba A. Aljarallah, Andrew Angus
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Natural Resource Rents, Autocracy and Economic Freedom
, 2021 This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces a trade-off between liberalizing the economy to broaden ...
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The effect of natural resources rents on institutional and policy reform: New evidence
Resources Policy, 2022 Using cross-section, panel, and probit models for a panel of 112 countries over the 2005–2018 period, we examine the effect of natural resource rents on institutional and policy reform, proxied by the change in economic freedom measures. Our results suggest that natural resource rents have a negative and significant effect on the change in economic ...
Abdollah Khoshnoodi +2 more
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Natural resource dependence and economic growth in SSA: are there threshold effects?
Development Studies Research, 2022 The debate on the natural resource curse hypothesis has attracted the attention of policy makers and policy analysts for the past few decades. However, the empirical findings on such a hypothesis have proven inconclusive.
John Bosco Dramani +3 more
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Environmental ChallengesThis paper empirically analyzes the influence of natural resource usage on climate risks and examines the aggregate natural rents, which include gas, coal, and mineral rents, in connection with a range of climatic hazards, such as riverine flooding, sea ...
Le Thanh Ha
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7, 11, and 12 are all aimed at advancing green energy consumption in the fight against the three planetary crises facing the world today: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
Sulemana Mumuni, Thomas Mwimba
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