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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012 - This version: August, 2012

This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe...

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Natural resources and exports diversification in Cameroon : does corruption matter?

Ngameni, Joseph Pasky; Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; … - In: Research in globalization 6 (2023), pp. 1-12

This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi cation … diversification while forest and mineral resources decrease export diversification. Also, in the short run, executive corruption …, executive corruption instead mitigates the negative effect of natural resources irrespective of their type on export …

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth : A Curse or a Blessing?

Daniele, Vittorio - 2013

The debate on the 'curse of natural resources' is a topical issue in empirical research on economic development. This paper examines the relationship between natural resources and growth rates in a cross-section of countries, by separately analyzing abundance of resources and dependence on...

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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011

Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014

The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural resource, the mainstream literature on the topic has been...

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Poor Institutions, Rich Mines : Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2017

This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the ma fia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a...

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Oil Rent and Income Inequality in Selected Developing Countries : Does Corruption Matter?

Yogo, Urbain Thierry - 2016

-linear effect is conditional to the control of corruption …

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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture

Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010

This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...

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Chapter 22 The economics of agriculture in developing countries: The role of the environment

López, Ramón - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1213-1247). 2002

This chapter is concerned with agricultural supply responses in developing countries. Its main emphasis is in explicitly considering the dynamics of the natural resource base (e.g., soil quality, water, etc.) of agriculture as well as the endogenous evolution of rural environmental institutions...

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Growth complementarity between agriculture and industry : evidence from a panel of developing countries

Souza, João Paulo A. de - 2014

Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture elicits growth in manufacturing. For identification, I use population-weighted, average temperature as an instrument for growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects:...

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Unconditional aid and green growth

Altaghlibi, Moutaz; Wagener, Florian Oskar Ottokar - 2016

Environmentally motivated aid can help developing countries to achieve economic growth while mitigating the impact on emission levels. We argue that the usual practice of giving aid conditionally is not effective, and we therefore study aid that is given unconditionally. Our framework is a...

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