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Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...

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Nature, power, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 48 (2001) 5, pp. 558-588

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Nature, power, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

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Diversification, Dutch disease and economic growth : options for Uganda

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - In: Economic diversification policies in natural resource …, (pp. 118-147). 2017

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Diversification, Dutch disease, and economic growth : options for Uganda

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2014 - This Version: November 14, 2014

significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no …

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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is significantly stronger in less democratic...