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Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa : an investigation of the role of natural resource endowment
Ndikumana, Léonce; Sarr, Mare - 2016
investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two … questions: Is FDI a potential driver of capital flight? And, is natural resource endowment a possible channel for the capital … flight-FDI link? The econometric analysis is based on 32 African countries over the period 1970-2013 using dynamic panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460045
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Political economy and governance
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is premised on the understanding that institutions matter for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595705
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Rowing against the current : diversification in Africa's resource-rich economies
Page, John M. - 2018
The exploitation of natural resources is a huge opportunity, but one that carries considerable risks. Relative prices in resource-exporting economies tend to push them towards economic structures dominated by the resource sector. This paper explores ways to achieve diversification in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874020
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Transparency in extractive industry commodities trading
Östensson, Olle - 2020
The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that many of the published estimates of losses from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405617
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Investigating the fiscal resource curse : what's China got to do with it?
Chachu, Daniel Ofoe; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - 2020
The term fiscal resource curse refers to countries' inability to raise taxes from a broad base in the presence of natural resources. We employ a novel instrumental variable strategy to estimate the causal effect of resource revenues on non-resource tax effort by exploiting the so-called 'China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240659
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Does the political resource curse affect public finance? : the vulnerability of tax revenue in resource-rich countries
Haldenwang, Christian von; Ivanyna, Maksym - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2017
This paper explores the extent to which government revenue is affected by external shocks, and whether these effects are different for resource-rich as compared with non-resource-rich countries. We are particularly interested in the fate of poorer countries, as we assume they will find it more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588868
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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? : a reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change
Lebdioui, Amir - 2021
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422665
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Is Kazakhstan vulnerable to natural resource curse?
Oskenbayev, Yessengali; Karimov, Aziz - 2013
This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point-source resources (oil and gas) and economic growth via institutional quality. Labour force migration from manufacturing to non-traded sector occurs as a result of wage increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204127
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Natural resource revenues and public investment in resource-rich economies in sub-Saharan Africa
Karimu, Amin; Adu, George; Marbuah, George; Mensah, … - 2016
The general policy prescription for resource-rich countries is that, for sustainable consumption, a greater percentage of the windfall from resource rents should be channelled into accumulating foreign assets such as a sovereign public fund as done in Norway and other developed but resource-rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449724
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The electric vehicle revolution : economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countries
Jones, Benjamin - 2020
The emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers considerable development opportunities for resource exporters, given their intensive raw material requirements, including for cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, aluminium, and manganese. To exploit the benefits of new demand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320985