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The political economy of the 'resource curse' : a development perspective
Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299602
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Extractives for development : ten main messages
Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2018
be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983951
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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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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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Mozambique : bust before boom : reflections on investment surges and new gas
Roe, Alan - 2018
This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources. The paper first describes the investment surge that has already been prompted by new gas discoveries in Mozambique. It then summarizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927737
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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165580
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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396968
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410852