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Natural Resources, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa
East Asian Economic Review, 2006 Development economists have found evidence that an abundance in natural resources hinders economic growth, contrary to conventional expectations. This finding is called the resource curse hypothesis.
Bokyeong Park , Kang-Kook Lee
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The environmental resource curse hypothesis: the forest case [PDF]
The resource curse hypothesis relies on the resource-rich countries tendency to grow slower than resource-poor countries. Focusing on forest issues, this paper extends the resource curse hypothesis to environmental degradation: how do forest endowment ...
Philippe Delacote, Olivier Damette
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Context matters : rethinking the resource curse in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2007 Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war.
Basedau, Matthias
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Confronting the 'Resource Curse or Cure' Binary [PDF]
, 2014 The use of the curse or cure dichotomy to frame a discussion around the impacts of mining is an oversimplification, not least in the emphasis on one or the other (as opposed to curse and cure).
Robyn Mayes +11 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States (U.S.) faces challenges in achieving its ambitious net‐zero carbon emissions target by 2050, with current emissions having fallen by less than 1% in 2024. Despite an investment of $500 billion in low‐carbon resources while holding the second‐largest green technology patent portfolio globally, it is further imperative to ...
Md Zubair Ahmad +5 more
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war.
Matthias Basedau
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The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey [PDF]
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse.
Jeffrey A. Frankel
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Defining Remanufacturing: A Key Business Strategy Advancing Industrial Circularity
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Remanufacturing is a key strategy in the circular economy, enabling substantial product value retention. However, inconsistent definitions across standards and legislation hinder global trade, core recovery and market acceptance. This study examines how remanufacturing is defined in laws and standards, and how these definitions impact industry
Erik Sundin +2 more
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The “Resource Curse” and Regional U.S. Development [PDF]
The “Resource Curse” is a stylized fact that has been observed consistently in a number of development studies: countries that are relatively well-endowed with natural resources tend to grow more slowly than resource-poor economies.
Donald Freeman
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability and political influence increasingly shape corporate strategy, yet the link between politically appointed executives and firms' environmental actions remains underexplored. This study investigates whether political appointments to top executive positions influence the adoption of green action initiatives and how ...
Post Raj Pokharel +3 more
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