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Aryeetey, Ernest; Ackah, Ishmael - 2018

, spending from petroleum revenues appears to be rather thinly spread and not efficient. This defeats the purpose of … is essential that spending from petroleum revenues is guided by a medium- to long-term inclusive development strategy …

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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...

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The Undesired Impact of Petroleum Resources on Human Capital in Iran’s Provinces : A Double Resource Curse?

MOUSAVI, Amir; Zamani, Zahra; Ben Youssef, Adel - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of petroleum resource abundance on human capital in Iran’s provinces. Using a … relationship between petroleum abundance and human capital, measured by education and health care. The identical results are … location of the provinces in either upstream downstream (UD) or merely downstream (D) petroleum activities. The results not …

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Are sub-Saharan African countries losing it on oil and gas revenue management too? : evidence from Ghana

Ali-Nakyea, Abdallah; Amoh, John Kwaku; Mohammed, Nasir Alfa - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 9 (2019) 2, pp. 89-97

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Winning the Oil Lottery : The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth

Cavalcanti, Tiago - 2016

This paper provides evidence of the causal impact of oil discoveries on development. Novel data on the drilling of 20,000 oil wells in Brazil allows us to exploit a quasi-experiment: Municipalities where oil was discovered constitute the treatment group, while municipalities with drilling but no...

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The New Oil & Gas Governance

Righetti, Tara Kathleen - 2020

As technologies change and the scale of human activity grows, so, too, does the law. The surge of oil and gas production in the United States, spurred by hydraulic fracturing in shale formations, has fomented a sea change in oil and gas law, substantially infusing this area with more complex...

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Finance and oil : is there a resource curse?

Beck, Thorsten - In: Beyond the curse : policies to harness the power of …, (pp. 81-106). 2012

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Beyond blood oil : philosophy, policy and the future

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Addressing oil spillages and agricultural productivity. Evidence of pollution in Nigeria

Manotas-Hidalgo, Beatriz - 2022

This paper examines how the pollution generated by oil operations in Nigeria can affect agricultural total factor productivity. I analyze oil spillages, which constitute the major ecological disaster in Nigeria, leading to large environmental, economic and social problems. Following a...

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Practice and Application of Oil Funds : Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as Case Studies in Addressing the Dutch Disease

Mahmudov, Siraj - 2014

This is a study of the issues of economic growth, structural changes, and wealth management in oil-rich transition economies with reference to the cases of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The main research rationale is to analyze the potential consequences of wealth, such as the Dutch Disease and to...

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