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What Turns a Blessing into a Curse? The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth (Invited Lecture) [PDF]

open access: yes
I review the relationship between natural resource endowment type and economic growth in developing countries. Certain types of natural resources, such as oil and minerals, tend to exhibit concentrated production and revenue patterns, while revenue flows
Syed Mansoob Murshed
core  

When Does Top Management Team Diversity Matter in Large Organizations?

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Top management teams (TMTs) drive strategic leadership, but there is little clarity on when the composition of these upper echelons most impacts organization performance. Drawing from the categorization‐elaboration model, we study an 18‐year sample of approximately 4500 organizations and over 32 000 executives and find a positive relationship ...
Frances Fabian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Conductive Rubber Composites: Progress, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

open access: yesMacromolecular Rapid Communications, EarlyView.
This study reviews the recent advances in conductive rubber composites, focusing on key aspects such as material selection, conductive mechanisms, interfacial engineering, processing methods, vulcanization strategies, and practical applications. It also discusses current challenges and highlights emerging directions that are shaping the development of ...
Lu Yin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exocrine Gland Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Therapeutic Perspectives—A Narrative Review

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Non‐motor symptoms, especially autonomic dysfunction, are major contributors to disability and decreased quality of life in Parkinson's disease (PD). Despite being common and having a wide range of clinical facets, exocrine gland dysfunction is still not well recognized and managed.
Renato P. Munhoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples in northern Alberta, including Dené and Cree of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations (ACFN and MCFN), have been using Indigenous laws and stewardship principles to care for their homelands for thousands of years. Since ACFN and MCFN signed Treaty 8 with Canada in 1899, Alberta's land management policies and
Lori Cyprien   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On capturing oil rents with a national excise tax

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Destructive competition : oil and rent seeking in Iran

open access: yes, 2005
In countries with poorly developed institutions, rent seeking may impose serious costs for the economy. Our analysis demonstrates how rent seeking distorts the economy through two channels. First, there is the direct cost of the resources wasted in the rent seeking contest.
Bjorvatn, Kjetil, Selvik, Kjetil
openaire   +1 more source

Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

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