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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …
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Resource-richness and economic growth in contemporary U.S.
Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
, on private and public education expenditures, and distortionary taxation. …
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The value of redistribution : natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
Agüero, Jorge M.; Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Maldonado … - 2017
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...
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Extractives for development : ten main messages
Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2018
Countries face both challenges and opportunities in using their extractive industries to achieve more inclusive development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also be associated with acute social inequality and deep...
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Papua New Guinea and the natural resource curse
Avalos, Nayda; Gonzales Stuva, Veronica; Heal, Adam; … - 2013
Several empirical studies have found that when exports are concentrated in natural resources countries experience slower rates of economic growth. Various potential channels for this relationship have been identified including Dutch disease, volatility in the terms of trade, and impacts on...
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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016
of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the "awareness" of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …
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Natural resources' impact on government revenues
Knebelmann, Justine - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2017
Motivated by the fact that the taxation of natural resources is both crucial and particularly challenging for developing countries, this paper draws on a unique dataset to produce empirical evidence on two issues pertaining to the fiscal impact of oil. On a sample of 31 countries during the...
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Cost-reducing R&D in the presence of an appropriation alternative : an application to the natural resource curse
Martin Puzon, Klarizze Anne - 2013 - This version: January 2013
This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an option to engage in conflict. Using a game theoretical framework, it is argued that an increase in the amount of natural resources (in the informal sector here conflict for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737195
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The electric vehicle revolution : economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countries
Jones, Benjamin - 2020
The emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers considerable development opportunities for resource exporters, given their intensive raw material requirements, including for cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, aluminium, and manganese. To exploit the benefits of new demand,...
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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011
Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014
The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural resource, the mainstream literature on the topic has been...
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