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Should Canada Worry About a Resource Curse? [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2014 An abundance of natural resources might seem like something any nation would want to be blessed with. But in some countries, a bounty of energy, minerals and other resources can become as much a curse as a blessing.
Alan Gelb
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The Political Resource Curse [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a political agency model with career concerns and endogenous entry of candidates.
F. Brollo +3 more
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Do Energy Resource Curse and Heterogeneous Curse Exist in Provinces? Evidence from China
Energies, 2020 This study aims to find the relationship between energy resource dependence and economic growth in consideration of interprovincial heterogeneity. This paper first uses panel data from 14 provinces with rich energy resources in China between 2001 and ...
Hui Hu, Weijun Ran, Yuchen Wei, Xiang Li
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Institutions and the Resource Curse [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2006 Countries rich in natural resources constitute both growth losers and growth winners. We claim that the main reason for these diverging experiences is differences in the quality of institutions. More natural resources push aggregate income down, when institutions are grabber friendly, while more resources raise income, when institutions are producer ...
Mehlum, Halvor +2 more
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Will solar energy escape the natural “resource curse”?
Energy Strategy Reviews, 2022 The resource curse haunts countries whose economies have become dangerously specialized in the exploitation of a single resource. This curse threatens countries whose economies are poorly diversified and oriented mainly towards the export of their non ...
Carole Brunet +5 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2015 Natural resource extraction forms the backbone of the Russian economy and characterizes the majority of regions and communities in the Russian North.
Tuomas Kristian Suutarinen
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The resource curse in renewable energy: A framework for risk assessment
Energy Strategy Reviews, 2022 Renewable energy development can enable climate-compatible growth in low- and middle-income countries, particularly given the substantial opportunities for energy export to high-income countries seeking to decarbonise their energy systems.
Alycia Leonard +3 more
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Testing the Existence of Natural Resource Curse in Indonesia: The Role of Financial Development
Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, 2021 Natural resources may become a blessing that can contribute to societies’ welfare increases. Yet natural resource abundance could also become a curse for countries’ economic development. Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between natural
Sedwivia Ridena +3 more
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Spatial Spillover Effects of the Resource Curse: An Empirical Analysis in China
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 On the basis of a production function, an economic model consisting of three regions and two departments (resources and conventional departments) is constructed to explore the effect of natural resources on economic development and their spatial ...
Xiaolu Men
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Is the 'Curse of Natural Resources' Really a Curse? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 This paper takes a new look at the long-run implications of resource abundance. Using a Schumpeterian growth model that yields an analytical solution for the transition path, it derives conditions under which the curse of natural resources occurs and is in fact a curse, meaning that welfare falls, conditions under which it occurs but it is not a curse,
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