” natural rate and that the longer term evidence supports a leading role for Asia's contribution to the expansion of ex ante …

, in individual emerging market and developing countries in Asia. Notably, we provide evidence that the global monetary … condition is partly responsible for the current account surplus in Asia. We also draw implications for monetary policy …

We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that … natural resource production and wealth have adverse effects on political institutions, for instance by increasing corruption …

resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …