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Natural-resource rents and internal conflicts : can decentralization lift the curse? ; conference paper
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013 - This version: February 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339382
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On the Political Economy of Resource Rents in Polarized Societies
Bjorvatn, Kjetil - 2010
The present paper analyses how resource rents may affect political outcomes in a polarized society, where groups hold conflicting views on economic policy. A politically dominant group decides whether or not to include the opposition in the national political process. The weaker group chooses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198324
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Foreign agents? : natural resources & the political economy of civil society
Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
of a negative oil price shock, regime change becomes likely, whereas a positive oil shock increases the extractive … capacity of the dictator. When a negative oil price shock occurs, the persecution of failed revolutionaries can prevent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536049
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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?
O'Reilly, Colin - 2015
identification strategy to test these models. However, Lei and Michaels (2014) find that exogenous discoveries of “giant” oil fields … of the oil discovery. Results indicate that for conflicts over control of territory, strong economic and political … institutions reduce the likelihood of conflict in the wake of the discovery of oil. This empirical finding is consistent with basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027193
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Papua New Guinea and the natural resource curse
Avalos, Nayda; Gonzales Stuva, Veronica; Heal, Adam; … - 2013
Several empirical studies have found that when exports are concentrated in natural resources countries experience slower rates of economic growth. Various potential channels for this relationship have been identified including Dutch disease, volatility in the terms of trade, and impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782123
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Commodity shocks, factor intensity and conflicts in Africa
Gantier Mita, Marcelo - 2020
Natural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal B'o & Dal B'o (2011) theory states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using sub-national cells covering the African continent for 1997-2010, I find that conflicts react differently to positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318667
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Leader behaviour and the natural resource curse
Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse,in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy’stotal value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rentswill alter the incentives of a political leader....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305061
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The impact of geography an natural resource abundance on growth in Central Asia
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich. The main conclusions are: (1) Over the period 1994–2006, the landlocked resourcescarce developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758512
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The Impact of Geography and Natural Resource Abundance on Growth in Central Asia
Felipe, Jesus - 2010
This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich. The main conclusions are: (1) Over the period 1994-2006, the landlocked resource-scarce developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136453
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Avoiding the political resource curse : evidence from a most-likely case
Schmoll, Moritz; Swenson, Geoffrey - In: Studies in comparative international development : SCID 59 (2024) 1, pp. 27-55
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