Impact of institutions and ICT services in avoiding resource curse: lessons from the successful economies [PDF]
Countries endowed with abundant natural resource have not shown similar economic growth. Thus, the study investigates why some resource-abundant countries are not successful while others are. By using the fixed effect panel data model, the study examines
Birku Reta Entele
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Does cultural resource endowment backfire? Evidence from China’s cultural resource curse [PDF]
Resource curse theory suggests that regions rich in natural resource endowments accumulate adverse economic competitive, but few studies have focused on causes and mechanisms of cultural resource curses.
Jianxin Zhou +3 more
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Escaping the resource curse in China. [PDF]
Many societies face an income gap between rich regions with access to advanced technology and regions that are rich in natural resources but poorer in technology. This "resource curse" can lead to a Kuznets trap, in which economic inequalities between the rich and the poor increase during the process of socioeconomic development.
Cao S, Li S, Ma H, Sun Y.
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Oil for health in sub-Saharan Africa: health systems in a 'resource curse' environment [PDF]
Background In a restricted sense, the resource curse is a theory that explains the inverse relationship classically seen between dependence on natural resources and economic growth.
Calain Philippe
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Study on “Resource Curse” Based on the Panel Data in Coal Resource-Rich Districts of Inner Mongolia [PDF]
In order to analyse whether there is “Resource curse” in coal resource-rich district of Inner Mongolia such as Xilinguole, Hulunbeier, Tongliao, Chifeng, Erdos and Wuhai during “Golden ten years” (form 2000 to 2011) of coal, we developed the regression ...
Yao Hong +4 more
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The Study of Economic, Financial, and Political Risks on the Resource Curse Vulnerability Index in the Countries of the Mena Region [PDF]
Today, many risks, including economic, financial, and political ones, threaten the economies of countries. On the other hand, governments try to manage the negative consequences and neutralize or minimize their impact on the economy.
Danial Farbod +2 more
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The Financial Resource Curse* [PDF]
AbstractIn this paper, we present a model of the financial resource curse (i.e., episodes of abundant access to foreign capital coupled with weak productivity growth). We study a two‐sector (i.e., tradable and non‐tradable) small open economy. The tradable sector is the engine of growth, and productivity growth is increasing with the amount of labor ...
Benigno, Gianluca, Fornaro, Luca
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Cursed by Resources or Institutions? [PDF]
Natural resource‐abundant countries constitute both growth losers and growth winners, and the main difference between the success cases and the cases of failure lies in the quality of institutions. With grabber‐friendly institutions more natural resources push aggregate income down, while with producer‐friendly institutions more natural resources ...
Halvor Mehlum +2 more
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Happiness and the Resource Curse [PDF]
There has been increasing interest in the so-called ‘resource curse’: the tendency of resource-rich countries to underperform in several socio-economic outcomes. More recently, several papers have looked beyond the traditional impact on economic growth and instead focused on the effects upon broader human welfare indicators.
Sabna Ali +2 more
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The Policy Framework of Natural Resource Management in Oil-Dependence Countries
A variety of critical empirical studies are interested in and focused on complex issues related to natural resource management and resource curse, whilst less can be found combining diverse factors that affect the dynamics of this curse and mitigate it ...
Basem Ertimi +3 more
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