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Oil Rents and Patronage: The Fiscal Effects of Oil Booms in the Argentine Provinces

Comparative Politics, 2018
Abstract: When do oil dependent governments spend oil rents in expanding political machines through patronage and clientelism, as rentier theories claim, or in providing better public services? Using regression analysis for panel data and two case studies for the Argentine provinces (1983-2013), this study shows that infrastructure can rise and ...
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Is Oil Rent a Curse for Health in Africa?

South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 2020
Aims/ Objectives: To determine whether oil rent is a curse for the health of populations in Africa.Study Design: Cross-sectional study.Place and Duration of Study: Oil-producing African countries over the period 2000-2015.Methodology: Using the Random effects (RE) and the Two Stages Least Square (2SLS) estimators on a sample of 18 Oil-producing African
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The Impact of Oil Rents on Subnational Development: Evidence from Argentina [PDF]

Studies in Comparative International Development, 2019
Abstract: This article analyses the relation between mineral rents and development outcomes at the subnational level. The classical literature suggests that natural resource abundance has negative effects on well-being, a situation referred to as the resource curse.
Lucas I. González, Germán Lodola
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Efficiency of oil-production: the role of institutional factors

Engineering Management in Production and Services, 2020
The article aims to provide a theoretical basis for the assessment of the institutional impact on oil production. The availability of fuel is the key driver of the functioning national economy, which determines the strategic and tactical landmarks of ...
Chygryn Olena, Lyulyov Oleksii, Pimonenko Tetyana, Mlaabdal Saad   +3 more
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Land rents drive oil palm expansion dynamics in Indonesia

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Increasing global demand for oil palm drives its expansion across the tropics, at the expense of forests and biodiversity. Little is known of the dynamics that shape the spread of oil palm, limiting our potential to predict areas vulnerable to future ...
Felix K S Lim, L Roman Carrasco, Jolian McHardy, David P Edwards   +3 more
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The basic directions of use of the oil-and-gas ren

RUDN Journal of Engineering Research, 2008
In clause definition of the natural rent - as additional income (superprofit) is considered. On the basis of research of modern techniques of an estimation of the natural rent methodological approaches to an estimation of the natural rent in oil-and-gas ...
A Fadlalla
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The role of natural resource rent, economic sustainability, and renewable energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions: an asymmetric analysis

Environmental Research Communications
In the last twenty years, the extraction and utilisation of resources have markedly increased, resulting in environmental problems such as resource depletion, smog, and climate change. As industrialization continues to grow, research increasingly focuses
Fei Shang, Rulia Akhtar, Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Sarah Salahuddin   +3 more
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The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes in Oil Countries [PDF]

Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2014
This paper examines factors influencing the choice of exchange rate regime in oil producing countries. Prevailing theories in selecting exchange rate regime include optimum currency area, political economy theory, and currency crisis. In this survey the
Seyed Peyman Asadi, Javid Bahrami
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Opportunity entrepreneurship, oil rents and control of corruption

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to better understand the conditions that can lead to high and low opportunity entrepreneurship in countries with oil rents. Additionally, the study aims to find out the differences between countries with oil rents and countries without oil rents.
Torres, Pedro, Godinho, Pedro
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On capturing oil rents with a national excise tax

American Economic Review, 1982
This paper argues that since the supply of oil in the ground is inelastic, the incidence of a sales tax on oil, maintained forever at a fixed rate, would fall entirely on the oil-suppliers. In the world economy, however, the elasticity of supply of oil to a single country depends on that country's imports as a share of world output and on the ...
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