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The natural resource curse and institutions in post-Soviet countries

Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

We examine the effect of natural resource exports on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to social and institutional context; however, these...

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Disaggregating the resource curse : is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?

Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010

The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...

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Understanding the Resource Impact Using Matching

Aliyev, Ilkin - 2011

We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching method, we match the countries according to their observable characteristics, and estimate the relative growth rates of each matched pair. This way we are able to analyze the...

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth : A Curse or a Blessing?

Daniele, Vittorio - 2013

The debate on the 'curse of natural resources' is a topical issue in empirical research on economic development. This paper examines the relationship between natural resources and growth rates in a cross-section of countries, by separately analyzing abundance of resources and dependence on...

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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Lee, Munseob - 2015

We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the...

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A resource-rich neighbor is a misfortune : the spatial distribution of the resource curse in Brazil

Ishak, Phoebe W.; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2020

, measured by night-time light emissions, in oil-producing municipalities but impose negative spill-overs on neighbouring … municipalities. Spill-overs dominate beyond 150 km from oil activities and compensate direct effects in micro-regions. In oil … manufacturing and services. Spillovers are negative on wages and prices and positive on royalties and crime. …

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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...

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Understanding the boom : a framing paper

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

A significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated. This paper takes stock of the sequencing, timing, and scale of the development of a natural...

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Cursing the Blessings? Natural Resource Abundance, Institutions, and Economic Growth

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2007

Since Sachs and Warner's (1995a) contribution, there has been a lively debate on the so-called natural resource curse. This paper re-examines the effects of natural resource abundance on economic growth using new measures of resource endowment and considering the role of institutional quality....

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Natural Resources Abundance and Macroeconomic Performance in Nigeria

Jato, Terungwa Paul; Ayaga, Joyce Mbakosun - 2022

Since the “Dutch disease”, more studies are establishing a negative relationship between natural resource abundance and a nation’s economic performance that have termed a ‘resource curse’. Nigeria being of such countries with abundant natural resources this study sought to examine the...

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