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Local natural resource curse and sustainable socio-economic development in a Russian mining community of Kovdor

open access: yesFennia: 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

open access: yesEnergy 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

open access: yesJurnal 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Bright Prospects or an Omnious Future

open access: yesSwiss 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

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesCogent 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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The Global Financial Resource Curse [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican 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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The Rentier State at Work: Comparative Experiences of the Resource Curse in East Asia and the Pacific

open access: yesAsia & 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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Resource Curse and China's Infrastructure for Resources Model: Case Study of Angola

open access: yesJournal of China and International Relations, 2016
Resource-rich Sub-Saharan countries have found themselves trapped in the so-called resource curse. The importance of the aforementioned countries both as sources of natural resources and as consumer markets has been recognized by major world powers.
Luka Durovic
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