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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa

Addison, Tony - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …

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The Political Economy of Direct Dividend Transfers in Resource-Rich Countries : A Theoretical Consideration

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries over the past half-century. One proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource...

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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?

Bleaney, Michael - 2017

Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...

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Containing Volatility : Windfall Revenues for Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries

Dobronogov, Anton - 2017

An abundance of natural resources is both an opportunity and a challenge for developing countries. Several resource-rich, low-income countries receive amounts of foreign aid that are similar to or larger than their actual or potential revenues from natural resources. In such countries, the...

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Mauritania : Counting on Natural Wealth for a Sustainable Future

Mele, Gianluca - 2017

-middle-income countries, largely thanks to its considerable natural resources endowment. Over time the mining sector's contribution to gross …

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Resource Discoveries, Learning, and National Income Accounting

Hamilton, Kirk - 2017

Questions about the ultimate size of mineral and energy resource endowments and the degree of fiscal prudence which … how optimistic countries are about the risks in future mineral and energy markets, and how far into the future these …

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Export Diversification in Twelve European and Central Asian Countries and the Role of the Commodity Boom

Varela, Gonzalo - 2017

This paper examines export diversification along the product and market dimensions for selected countries in the Europe and Central Asia region and, more generally, export performance. While the latter is extraordinary, with average export growth rates above 10 percent, the evidence on...

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Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Resource Dependence on Institutional Quality

De Rosa, Donato - 2017

mineral fuel exports in a country's total exports, is associated with worse government effectiveness, as well as with reduced …

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Natural Resources, Weak States and Civil War : Can Rents Stabilize Coup Prone Regimes?

Bodea, Cristina - 2017

This paper argues that state weakness is broader than implied previously in the civil war literature, and that particular types of weakness in interaction with natural resources have aggravating or mitigating consequences for the risk of civil war. While in anocracies or unstable regimes natural...

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The"Resource Curse"In MENA? Political Transitions, Resource Wealth, Economic Shocks, and Conflict Risk

Ross, Michael L. - 2017

The recent political upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa region have exposed growing concerns about conflict risk, political stability, and reform prospects across its societies. Given the prevalence of oil and gas resource endowments in the region, which a voluminous literature...

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