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A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States

Basedau, Matthias; Lacher, Wolfram - 2006

Resource curse theory claims that resource abundance encourages violent conflict. A study of 37 oil …-producing developing countries, however, reveals that oil states with very high levels of oil revenue are remarkably stable. An analysis of … the ways in which governments spend oil revenues identifies two distinct types of rentier systems - the large …

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Natural resource exports, foreign aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study. The focus is on 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984 to 2008. The generalised method of moment is employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid...

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Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries : when "good" is not enough

Chachu, Daniel Ofoe - 2021

find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …

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Norway's oil and gas sector : how did the country avoid the resource curse?

Rosales Torres, César Said - In: Tempo do mundo 1 (2015) 1, pp. 93-107

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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...

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Understanding the boom : a framing paper

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

A significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated. This paper takes stock of the sequencing, timing, and scale of the development of a natural...

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Humboldt and the Economists on Natural Resources, Institutions and Underdevelopment (1752-1859)

Boianovsky, Mauro - 2013

The paper discusses how early economists, sometimes informed by Alexander Humboldt’s pioneer detailed report on a tropical country (Mexico), interpreted the connections between natural resources, institutions and growth. The apparent paradox of a negative relation between natural wealth and...

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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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Instability of Democracy as Resource Curse

Polterovich, Victor; Popov, Vladimir; Tonis, Alexander - 2011

We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability of democracy … Autocrat down. It is shown that the probability of democracy preservation is decreasing in the amount of resources if the … low institutional quality, a paradoxical effect takes place: the probability of democracy preservation may decrease with …

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Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse

Betz, Michael R.; Partridge, Mark D.; Farren, Michael; … - In: Energy economics 50 (2015), pp. 105-116

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