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Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments, openness, terms of trade, and schooling, and treating these ...
Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh
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Bright Prospects or an Omnious Future
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2017 Analysing competing visions of Uganda’s future with oil, this article off ers a new perspective on the resource curse as a risk discourse. Political and civil society actors in Uganda create and negotiate visions of the future that are framed by the ...
Annika Witte
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Dynamics of Resource Governance, Climate Change, and Security: Insights from Nigeria and Norway
Journal of Strategic Security, 2020 This study examines the nexus between resource governance, climate change and security in Nigeria and Norway against the backdrop of the resource curse.
Francis Okpaleke, Magnus Abraham-Dukuma
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Determinants of institutional quality and per capita growth in natural resource-dependent countries
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 Institutional quality has both short-term and long-term impacts on economic growth. Its short-term impact comes from the quality of institutions ex ante while its long-term impact comes from the quality of institutions ex post.
Khalid Adnan Saeed
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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? [PDF]
Journal of Economic Literature, 2010 Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests that either outcome is possible. This paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources.
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The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 AbstractThis article considers the debate over the “resource curse” (i.e., whether too much natural-resource wealth is harmful for developing countries) along with the debate about the mechanisms and conditions that likely generate the reported problems. After reviewing the literature on the resource curse, this article discusses the ways that scholars
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The resource curse: A statistical mirage? [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2015 Abstract A surprising feature of resource-rich economies is slow growth. It is often argued that natural-resource production impedes development by creating market or institutional failures. This paper establishes an alternative explanation—a slow-growing resource sector.
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The Global Financial Resource Curse [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2020 We provide a model connecting the global saving glut to productivity growth. The key feature is that the tradable sector is the engine of growth of the economy. Capital flows from developing countries to the United States boost demand for US nontradable goods, inducing a reallocation of US economic activity from the tradable sector to the nontradable ...
Benigno, Gianluca +2 more
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Investigating the Effect of Oil Rent on Agricultural Sector Employment in Iran’s Economy [PDF]
مدلسازی اقتصادسنجی, 2023 The effect of natural resources abundance on the economic performance of resource-rich countries shows different results. In this regard, the results of some studies justify the resource curse phenomenon in rich countries based on the Dutch disease and ...
Majid Maddah, Salman Khosravi
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014 Countries rich in natural resources do not all experience the resource curse in the same way. The rentier state logic holds that the main political–economic impacts of resource dependence rest on how the state handles windfall resource rents.
Naazneen H. Barma
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