Dans cet article nous analysons l'impact de la volatilité des prix des matières premières sur les recettes fiscales des pays en développement, alors que la littérature s'est principalement concentrée sur son effet sur la croissance économique. Notre analyse quantitative porte sur 80 pays...

Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of...

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...