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Friedman’s First Law fails: Oil prices do not predict freedom
Townsend, Steve - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 4 (2009) 1, pp. 78-83
Thomas Friedman’s First Law of Petropolitics has acquired wide circulation and acceptance without being subjected to …
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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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Blessing or curse : impacts of the Brazilian Pre-Salt oil exploration
Magalhães, Aline Souza; Domingues, Edson Paulo - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 343-362
The discoveries of oil and gas in the so-called "Pre-Salt layer" have triggered a lot of discussions about their economic effect. In this paper we discuss in detail a less discussed dimension: the impact of Pre-Salt layer in the structure of the Brazilian economy, especially the composition of...
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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - In: Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 139-157
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50%. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of internal...
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Oil and Democracy
Cesari, Anna - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 126 (2014) 3, pp. 265-274
According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and … an estimate of the oil-democracy demultiplier. Moreover, we obtain an indicator of the surplus/deficit of democracy …
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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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Natural resources and democracy in Latin America : neither curse nor blessing
Haber, Stephen H.; Menaldo, Victor - In: The Oxford handbook of Latin American political economy, (pp. 367-380). 2012
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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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Natural Resources and Democracy in Latin America:Neither Curse Nor Blessing
Haber, Stephen; Menaldo, Victor - In: The Oxford handbook of Latin American political economy. 2012
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Erdbeben in den Niederlanden können den europäischen Erdgasmarkt nicht erschüttern
Holz, Franziska; Brauers, Hanna; Roobeek, Thorsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 48, pp. 1139-1146
Die vermehrt auftretenden Erdbeben im Nordosten der Niederlande werden auf die Förderung von Erdgas im Groningen-Feld zurückgeführt. Dadurch entstand erheblicher Widerstand gegen die Erdgasförderung in der niederländischen Bevölkerung, der über die Lokal- und Provinzpolitik hinaus...
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