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Foreign agents? : natural resources & the political economy of civil society
Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
drawn from Iran, the Soviet Union/Russia and Egypt. …Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a … tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational …
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Resoures, conflict and development choices : public good provision in resource rich economies
Sarr, Mare; Wick, Katharina - In: Economics of governance 11 (2010) 2, pp. 183-205
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul A. - In: Public choice 148 (2011) 3/4, pp. 505-530
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On the looting of nations
Sarr, Mare; Bulte, Erwin H.; Meissner, Chris; Swanson, … - In: Public choice 148 (2011) 3/4, pp. 353-380
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Resources and incentives to reform
Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - 2000
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Resources and incentives to reform : a model and some evidence on sub-Saharan African countries
Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001612420
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Resources and incentives to reform
Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - In: IMF staff papers 50 (2003) 2, pp. 250-273
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Beyond divide and rule : weak dictators, natural resources and civil conflict
De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros; Vargas, Juan F. - In: European journal of political economy 53 (2018), pp. 205-221
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Extracting profit : imperialism, neoliberalism and the new scramble for Africa
Wengraf, Lee - 2018
A historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization. This exploitation has not gone unchallenged, however....
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Resource curse : a comparative study
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Rukavina, Marko - 2014
examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …
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