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The resource curse revisited and revised : a tale of paradoxes and red herrings
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2006
We critically evaluate the empirical basis for the so-called resource curse and find that, despite the topic’s popularity in economics and political science research, this apparent paradox is a red herring. The most commonly used measure of ‘resource abundance’ can be more usefully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459205
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Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance : A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis
Knack, Stephen - 1999
July 2000 - Do higher levels of aid erode the very quality of governance poor countries need for sustained and rapid income growth? Good governance-in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors-is crucial for the sustained and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524484
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The long-term effects of foreign investment dependence on economic growth, 1940 - 1990
Kentor, Jeffrey - In: Development and underdevelopment : the political …, (pp. 345-356). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002253525
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Income inequality, development, and dependence : a reconsideration
Alderson, Arthur S.; Nielsen, François - In: Development and underdevelopment : the political …, (pp. 357-378). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002253548
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The distribution of income across national populations : testing multiple paradigms
Crenshaw, Edward Michael - In: Social science research : a journal of social science … 23 (1994) 1, pp. 1-22
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Revising arguments for the modern policy framework : an empirical study
Roestel, Jan - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009512298
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Does Sovereignty Matter for Growth? An Analysis of Growth Rates between 1870 and 1950
Alam, M. Shahid - 2006
This paper is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the connections between sovereignty (or its absence) and … growth rates in lagging countries over the period 1870 to 1950. Using a four-fold taxonomy of sovereignty, our estimates of … sovereignty differentials for growth rates of per capita income for 1900-1950 show a quantitatively strong positive impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053786
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Einkommensungleichheit in Mittelosteuropa 1989 bis 2003 : eine empirisch-theoretische Gegenüberstellung externer und interner Faktoren
Wolters, Willem - In: Osteuropa / Osteuropa-Wirtschaft 53 (2008) 2, pp. 115-135
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744241
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Import dependency and structural adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
López, Ramón; Thomas, Vinod - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481815