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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nguessa Nganou, Jean-Pascal - 2014

Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconmic Stability and Growth: The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah; Hamilton, Kirk; Kazimov, Kazim - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Good Mine, Bad Mine : Natural Resource Heterogeneity and Dutch Disease in Indonesia

Pelzl, Paul - 2019

We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia using a panel of manufacturing plants. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to model and estimate the effect of heterogeneity in natural resource extraction methods. We...

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Good Mine, Bad Mine: Natural Resource Heterogeneity and Dutch Disease in Indonesia

Pelzl, Paul; Poelhekke, Steven - 2018

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How Institutions Shape Land Deals: The Role of Corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption …-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that … corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups (characterized by corruption) to strike deals with domestic and international …

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Can a Growing World Be Fed When the Climate Is Changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...

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Resource-Richness and Economic Growth in Contemporary U.S.

Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...

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Should green governments give priority to environmental policies over growth-enhancing policies?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2005

This paper studies the properties of second-best optimal policy in a standard general equilibrium model of growth augmented with renewable natural resources. The government chooses its policy instruments (the income tax rate and the allocation of collected tax revenues between public investment...

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Diversifying and Benchmarking Madagascar

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nganou, Jean-Pascal N. - 2024

Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...

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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015

What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...

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