Many scholars see corruption as the main reason behind the poor development performance of many resource-rich economies, known as the resource curse. Some relate this to the shift in governments’ source of income from taxation to resource rents. Taxation is seen as a social contract through...

Central Asian States (CAS) have diverse natural resources. This research aims to shed light on the finance-natural resource's association in the context of CAS namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in 1996-2020 using the cross-sectionally augmented...

This paper extends the literature of the natural resource curse by proposing the role of innovation in the relationship between natural resource dependence and economic growth within non-linear model. We hypothesize that innovation can help a country to overcome the resource curse through...

As regards the question whether natural resource affluence is a benediction or curse to sustainable development, the jury's verdict is still awaited. While we impatiently await the jury's verdict, this study provides empirical evidence that Mother Nature is responsible for Africa's predicaments...