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Investigating the Effect of Oil Rent on Agricultural Sector Employment in Iran’s Economy [PDF]
The effect of natural resources abundance on the economic performance of resource-rich countries shows different results. In this regard, the results of some studies justify the resource curse phenomenon in rich countries based on the Dutch disease and ...
Majid Maddah, Salman Khosravi
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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace [PDF]
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war.
Alireza Naghavi, Kjetil Bjorvatn
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The Interactive Effect of Good Governance and Oil Rent on Life Expectancy in Iran [PDF]
Background: Oil revenues, as an important part of the government's revenues in Iran's oil-dependent economy, play an important role in providing public sector expenditures, including the health sector and consequently have an impact on health outputs. On
sahebe Mohamadian Mansour +1 more
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How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents? [PDF]
Oil and other mineral rents are, in most countries, owned by producing states on behalf of their citizens. The paper focuses on three questions. First, how should countries take into account the great uncertainty over future export prices in planning their spending programs?
Alan Gelb, Sina Grasmann
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The most powerful potential of Russia's natural resources is only partially realized, and determining the reasons for the insufficient efficiency of its use is a current research topic.
Arunas A. Lapinskas
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Oil Rents Shocks and Inequality in Iran [PDF]
We study the short and long run responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas rent shocks in Iran. Using historical data from 1973 to 2012 and vector autoregression (VAR)-based impulse response functions, we find a positive and statistically significant response of income inequality to oil rent booms within 4 years of the shock.
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza, Krieger, Tim
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Sharing oil rents and political violence
This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to subnational governments) yield the highest levels of consumption,
Cordella, Tito, Onder, Harun
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Effects of Aging on Income Inequality: Developing Countries vs. Developed Countries [PDF]
Aging and its consequences have made population aging a major social issue. Aging populations are likely to exacerbate inequality by increasing the public and private financial burdens of social welfare costs.
Hossein Amiri +2 more
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THE ENERGY-GROWTH NEXUS WITHIN OIL PRODUCTION AND OIL RENTS CONTEXT [PDF]
The per capita primary energy consumption-economic growth nexus is examined in a panel of oil-producing countries over a long period (1970-2015), controlling for the exports of goods and services, the ratio of oil production to oil consumption, the oil rents, and international crude oil prices.
Fuinhas, José Alberto +4 more
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Oil Rent Appropriation, Capital Accumulation, and Social Expenditure in Venezuela during Chavism
Differential and absolute ground rent as extraordinary profit that remains permanent due to private ownership of non-reproducible conditions of production (Marx 2000) may be disputed by different classes and fractions of classes. The history of Venezuela
Juan Kornblihtt
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