This paper investigates the impact of petroleum resource abundance on human capital in Iran’s provinces. Using a feasible generalized least square method and panel data for 28 provinces in Iran collected between 2000 to 2014 we examine the relationship between petroleum abundance and human...

This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty, competitiveness, and fiscal policy challenges posed by the oil revenue outlook. The paper discusses the reforms needed to remove structural factors that constraints the non-oil...