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Essays on development and resource economics
Endrikat, Morten - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605153
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Warner, Andrew M. - 2021
One of the surprising features of modern economic growth is that economies with abundant natural resources have tended to grow less rapidly than natural-resource-scarce economies. In this paper we show that economies with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP in 1971 (the base year)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235583
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148374
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318254
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Nature, Power, and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2021
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321136
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462947
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Testing the neocon agenda : democracy in resource-rich societies
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846252
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Sustainable growth and financial markets in a natural resource-rich country
Hooper, Emma - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 51 (2019), pp. 341-348
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300869