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Triggers of contract breach : contract design, shocks, or institutions?
Nose, Manabu - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234016
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Are natural resources cursed? : an investigation of the dynamic effects of resource dependence on institutional quality
De Rosa, Donato; Iootty, Mariana - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612783
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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital and economic growth
Bravo Ortega, Claudio; De Gregorio, Jose - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002581987
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Oil and civil conflict : can public spending have a mitigation effect?
Singh, Raju Jan; Bodea, Cristina; Higashijima, Masaaki - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442338
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Modeling uncertainty in large natural resource allocation problems
Cai, Yongyang; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Judd, Kenneth L.; … - 2020
The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229661
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How did Africa's prospective petroleum producers fall victim to the presource curse?
Mihalyi, David; Scurfield, Thomas - 2020
This paper reviews resource sector developments in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that made their first (major) petroleum discoveries during the most recent commodity boom. The analysis, which goes back to 2001, looks at sector forecasts of international organizations, governments, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296919
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Natural resource discoveries, citizen expectations and household decisions
Cust, James; Mensah, Justice Tei - 2020
Major oil and gas discoveries are often associated with excitement and jubilation among citizens and government officials. But the extent to which discoveries substantially alter citizen expectations about economic conditions in a country remains an open question. The paper combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297222
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Natural resources and total factor productivity growth in developing countries : testing a new methodology
Hamilton, Kirk; Naikal, Esther; Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2019
countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … total factor productivity growth across all country income classes and regions of the world when compared with the … volatile over time in the great majority of countries compared with the traditional approach. The availability of World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004727
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
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