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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...
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The natural resource boom and the uneven fall of the labor share
Dávila, Andrés O.; Fernández, Manuel; Zuleta, Hernando - 2021
We study the effect of the upsurge of natural resources income from the commodity price boom of the 2000s on the functional distribution of income. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model of Dutch disease that characterizes how natural resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares....
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...
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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
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The impact of population, affluence, technology, and urbanization on CO2 emissions across income groups
Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to 2014 for a panel of 76 countries clustered into income groups. Using dynamic panel estimations techniques, the empirical results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship...
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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018
Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...
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Ecological labelling in North-South trade
Althammer, Wilhelm (contributor);  … - 2006
We investigate in a horizontal product differentiation model with North-South trade the implications of a home bias in consumers' demand for labelled goods. We compare mutual recognition and international harmonisation of ecological labels with respect to firms' profits and welfare. Northern...
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Zukunftsgestaltung ohne Wirtschaftswachstum? : Ergebnisse eines Workshops des DIW im Auftrag von Greenpeace Deutschland
Blazejczak, Jürgen (ed.) - Workshop Zukunftsgestaltung ohne Wirtschaftswachstum? …; … - 1998
, Soziale Sicherung und Einkommensverteilung, Wirtschaftsordnung sowie Internationale Entwicklung. Abgesehen davon, daß … Wirtschaftswachstum einhellig auch im Rahmen eines Nachhaltigkeitsparadigmas für möglich gehalten wurde, kamen die Teilnehmer überwiegend … zu der Einschätzung, daß eine Lösung der wesentlichen Zukunftsprobleme auch bei fehlendem Wirtschaftswachstum möglich ist. …
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