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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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OIL RENT, GEOPOLITICAL RISK AND BANKING SECTOR PERFORMANCE
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2020 This paper aims to assess and compare the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) on the banking sector profitability of "oil and nonoil dependent" emerging markets. For empirical estimation, we used annual macro-level data of all the countries listed in the GPR index from the period 1998 to 2017.
Naif Alsagr +1 more
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OIL RENTS, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
Investigación Económica, 2022 This paper investigates the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) using a panel data model involving 15 petroleum exporting countries during the period 2008-2019. The econometric evidence, based on the Arellano-Bond generalized method of moments, shows that: 1) education raises TFP, which suggests that highly qualified workers are more able ...
Víctor M. Cuevas Ahumada +1 more
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Oil Rent: Joyful or Calamitous?
مدلسازی اقتصادسنجی, 2020 Achieving happiness has always been one of the goals of human societies, attracting the attention of many governors, scholars and researchers. In this regard, the link between oil revenues and happiness in oil-exporting countries is an important issue that has been little considered.
Haniyeh Sedaghat Kalmarzi +2 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in smart face masks that actively monitor breathing. By integrating humidity, gas, temperature, pressure, strain, and triboelectric sensors, these masks track key respiratory parameters in real time. The article summarizes sensor mechanisms, compares performance across studies, and discusses challenges and future ...
Negin Faramarzi +7 more
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The Dynamics of Lobbying under Uncertainty: On Political Liberalization in Arab Countries [PDF]
, 2013 We consider a framework à la Wirl (1994) where political liberalization is the outcome of a lobbying differential game between a conservative elite and a reformist group, the former player pushing against political liberalization in opposition to the ...
Boucekkine, Raouf +2 more
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Environmental Challenges of an Oil-Rent Based Economy
Politeja, 2021 This paper addresses the environmental issues taking place in Venezuela an oil rent‑ based economy and a mono producing country. This article reports on the transformations that occurred during the last ninety years since oil exploration began. The development style of a mono‑ producing country has had direct consequences in terms of the generated ...
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Aptamer‐Based Delivery Systems for VEGF and NGF Modulation in Ocular Therapies
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Aptamer‐based delivery systems targeting NGF and VEGF hold significant potential for precise and sustained treatment of complex diseases affecting both the anterior and posterior segments of the eye. This review critically summarizes current strategies for NGF and VEGF delivery as well as VEGF sequestration, providing a clinical perspective on how ...
Nadine Best +5 more
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Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples [PDF]
, 2018 The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among
Berman, Matthew
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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