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Reassessing the resource curse using causal machine learning
Hodler, Roland; Lechner, Michael; Raschky, Paul A. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426499
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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique
Roe, Alan - 2018
In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873860
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The impact of mining foreign direct investment on economic growth in Ghana
Ennin, Anthony; Wiafe, Emmanuel Agyapong - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
This paper investigates the impact of mining foreign direct investment on economic growth in Ghana using quarterly time … foreign direct investment into the mining sector and economic growth. The study established that foreign direct investment … into the mining sector hurts economic growth in Ghana in the long run but a positive in the short run. The study also finds …
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Malawi - Mineral Sector Review : Source of Economic Growth and Development
World Bank - 2012
This mineral sector review examines the mineral sector as a potential source of growth and development in Malawi. In seeking the World Bank's assistance the Government of Malawi was particularly interested in confirming the potential for mineral sector growth, identifying which constraints to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550883
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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia
Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207928
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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286179
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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266066
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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia
Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012 - This version: August, 2012
This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734156
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Pitfalls and promise : minerals extraction in Afghanistan
UNDP - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427757
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Estonia and Kazakhstan : financial and economic fate of economies after the collapse of the USSR
Yembergenkyzy, Nazym; Fałda, Beata - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 83-97
The collapse of the USSR significantly affected the economic and political situation of all the republics which gained sovereignty as a result. Among them were countries such as Estonia and Kazakhstan. This article considers whether these countries have coped with the new political conditions....
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