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The Resource Curse - A Natural Experiment [PDF]
This paper compares Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago which have a very similar climate, history, institutional framework, ethnic composition, size, etc., but are different in the natural resources they possess.
Zenthöfer, A.F.
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Examining the Role of Economic Complexity and Climate Readiness in the Climate‐Fishing Nexus
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the climate‐fisheries association in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations from 1999 to 2022. A key objective is to explore the role of both the economic complexity index (ECI) and the climate readiness factor (READ) in the climate‐fishing nexus.
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali +2 more
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Can Ghana's Institutions Withstand the Resource Curse? [PDF]
, 2013 In his presentation ' Can Ghana avoid the resource curse?' , Dr Inge Amundsen provides an overview of the economic and political explanations and consequences of the resource curse, presents the analytically important distinction between the institutions
Amundsen, Inge
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad +2 more
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Renewable Resource Curse Hypothesis: Could Renewable Resources Foster Sustainable Development?
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores whether the resource curse hypothesis applies to renewable energy by introducing a novel metric of renewable resource rent. Using a panel dataset of 46 countries (2010–2022), we define renewable rent as the product of electricity generation and the gap between industrial electricity price and levelized cost (LCOE).
Changwoo Chung +2 more
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse [PDF]
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and
Schubert, Samuel R.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how population ageing shapes sustainable energy pathways and introduces a novel multidimensional index to measure sustainable energy performance. The index is constructed using an entropy weighting method and measures progress across the main pillars of SDG7.
Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Ziqing Lin
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The 'Resource Curse' And Conflicts In Africa
SSRN Electronic JournalIn what has become widely known as the 'resource curse', high value natural resources have been linked to numerous armed conflicts and instability, significant loss of life, and lost opportunities for development. Apart from armed conflict and their repercussions, the resource curse affects other forms of conflicts and disputes over land, water ...
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The Role of the Natural Resource Curse in Preventing Development in Politically Unstable Countries: Case Studies of Angola and Bolivia [PDF]
For about three decades now, development economics researchers have consistently claimed that third world resource-rich countries were not developing as well and/or as fast as they were expected to, given that their natural resources endowment was ...
Joaquin Morales, Saraly Andrade
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