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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
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. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Economic Activity and Institutions
Parto, Saeed - EconWPA - 2003
words “institution” and “institutions” and the different levels at which the two notions are employed. Institutionalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118890
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004
We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a`grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality. We find that greed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407738
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Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accumulation
Stijns, Jean-Philippe C. - EconWPA - 2001
This study examines indicators of human capital accumulation together with data for natural resource abundance and rents in a panel of 102 countries running from 1970 to 1999. Mineral wealth makes a positive and marked difference on human capital accumulation. Matching on observables reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556069
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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH REVISITED
Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2001
Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118731
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Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa. The Conceptual Deficits of International Actors’ Approaches and How to Overcome Them
Mehler, Andreas; Mahnke, Hans-Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state- centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124973
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Industralization of Animal Agriculture
Erdogdu, Oya S.; Hennessy, David - EconWPA - 2003
The economic concerns and the technological developments increased control over nature and nurture in the animal agriculture. That changed the seasonality pattern of the supply side and lead to structural change in the animal agriculture together with the demand side factors. In this study we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413290
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The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease, 1501-1650
Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2004
This study formalizes and empirically tests the conjecture that the discovery of large silver reserves in its American colonies triggered in Spain a phenomenon known as the Dutch disease,diverting factors of production to non-traded goods industries and undermining the Spanishcomparative...
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Russian agricultural credit and subsidy policies in the early 1990s
Galbi, Douglas - EconWPA - 2003
In high income countries, the agricultural sector, like the telecommunications sector, includes well established interests and complex government subsidy and credit policies. Reform in the telecommunications sector greatly affects the leading edge of the economy, and thus job creation, income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556936
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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions
Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002
institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076830