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Natural resources, conflict and growth nexus
Wizarat, Shahida - 2013
Using panel data and GMM estimators we find that conflict and less developed countries (LDCs) natural resources have a positive and significant impact on GDP in the developed countries (DCs), while the lagged value of the conflict coefficient has a negative and significant impact on GDP in the...
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Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin - 2008
In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts in this literature. We find that the nature of causation between resource dependence and civil war is opposite to conventional wisdom. In particular, (i) civil war creates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753142
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Natural resources and violent conflict : resource abundance, dependence and the onset of civil wars
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2008
In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts in this literature. We find that the nature of causation between resource dependence and civil war is opposite to conventional wisdom. In particular, (i) civil war creates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003761376
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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?
O'Reilly, Colin - 2015
Despite repeated attempts to model conflict as contests over rent, few researchers have found a persuasive identification strategy to test these models. However, Lei and Michaels (2014) find that exogenous discoveries of “giant” oil fields are in fact associated with increased likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027193
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A revisit of the natural resource curse in the tourism industry
Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2023
Despite a growing literature on the natural resource curse, existing studies are sparse on how real effective exchange rate, political stability and corruption shape the relationship between natural resources and tourism revenues. This study analyses both the direct and indirect effects of...
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More Oil, Less Democracy : Evidence from Worldwide Crude Oil Discoveries
Tsui, Kevin K. - 2010
democracy. I use a unique dataset from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas and other sources describing worldwide … discovering oil decreases a country's 30-year change in democracy, as measured by the Polity Index. On average, discovering 100 … billion barrels pushes a country's democracy level almost 20 percentage points below trend. The estimated effect per barrel is …
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Why there should be no political foreign aid curse
Altincekic, Ceren; Bearce, David H. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 18-32
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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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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul - 2008
This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of its autocratic leader. The dictator uses the rents from oil extraction for both personal gain and to pay-off potential opposition and chooses an optimal level of oil...
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Does the Iranian oil supply matter for the oil prices?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
There is an increasing tension between the Iranian Government and the west on an increasingly likely European oil embargo and the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The main question is: What will happen to the international oil prices in the case of shocks in the flow of Iranian oil...
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