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Resource impact: curse or blessing? A literature survey
Stevens, Paul - 2003
Common sense and economic theory suggest large revenues from natural resource projects should generate economic progress and development. Yet much evidence argues the opposite and that resource-rich countries suffer from 'resource curse'. This paper provides a survey of the academic literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463491
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Unternehmerisches Handeln - Thema und Variationen : Präliminarien und materiale Skizze
Loer, Thomas - 2010
, Krise, Personalität, Innovation, Gestaltwahrnehmung - erweist sich der Unternehmer als ein Virtuose autonomer riskanter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434528
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Scientist Entrepreneurs and University Commercialization
Aldridge, Thomas Taylor - 2008
parents of such high growth and innovation can only be academic scientists. Indeed, academic entrepreneurship in the United … dazzling example of successful scientist entrepreneurship, many other regions and universities have also had highly academic … entrepreneurship. Some of these examples are: Genentech, Google, Gatorade, Digital, Medtronic, Amgen, Biogen and Cellomics. In fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482299
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Dealing with plenty: Brazil in the era of surplus oil
de Oliveira, Renato L. - 2011
This is a study about the growth of oil industry and its economic and political repercussions in Brazil. It combines an industrial analysis with an empirical assessment of the impact of oil royalties on municipal fiscal transparency in Brazil.This paper begins with an overview of the future of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477692
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Natural resource abundance and FDI in Latin America. The path of inequality.
Romero Mascarell, Luciano H - 2011
Does natural resource abundance decrease Latin American Foreign Direct Investment? This paper studies the effects of natural resource abundance on foreign direct investment (FDI), by focusing on inequality as the channel that links these two variables. Two arguments in the literature inspire...
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Microeconomic Analyses of the Causes and Consequences of Political Violence
Kreibaum, Merle - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324352
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Natural resource booms and inequality: theory and evidence
Goderis, Benedikt; Malone, Samuel W. - 2008
Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This paper develops a simple theory, in the context of a two sector growth model in which learning-by-doing drives growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441499
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Dutch Disease Scare in Kazakhstan: Is It Real?
Égert, Balázs; Leonard, Carol S. - 2007
In this paper we explore the evidence that would establish that Dutch disease is at work in, or poses a threat to, the Kazakh economy. Assessing the mechanism by which fluctuations in the price of oil can damage non-oil manufacturing -- and thus long-term growth prospects in an economy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476897
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Innovative and entrepreneurial activity in the public sector : the changing face of public sector institutions
Luke, Belinda G.; Kearins, Kate; Verreynne, Martie-Louise - 2010
three SOEs. Findings reveal that those aspects typically associated with entrepreneurship, such as innovation, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483465