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and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, as a significant number of the world poor live in … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
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development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also … be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
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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,...
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This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point … down by the world market. On top of that, the manufacturing sector costs increase even more as a consequence of the price …
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using panel data for 1995 to 2015 for 62 developing countries. The results suggest: (1) point-source resources are …
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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...
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-resource tax effort by exploiting the so-called 'China shock'. Since its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, China …
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such countries, rents from resources serve as opportunity to scale-up the needed public capital. Using panel data for the …
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In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
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In the context of falls in extractive commodities prices since 2011, this paper examines the history of thinking about the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on account of the huge diversity in country contexts, so...
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