"For decades, parallel literatures in political science and economics have blamed natural resources for several pathologies. The extraction, transportation, and export of hydrocarbons and minerals are believed to vitiate the rule of law and jeopardize property rights. They therefore hinder...

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...

This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi­ cation 1980-2020) through the bound test of co-integration and the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS). The main findings reveal that, natural resource accentuates export...