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A large body of scholarship finds that there is a relationship between reliance on natural resources and authoritarianism. Extant cross-country findings are derived, however, from panel regressions that assume random effects, where the dataset’s time dimension is relatively short. Because...
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This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...
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Many of the world's poor people depend on natural resources for their well-being. Four-fifths of the world's poor …-dependent communities. The World Bank has committed to reducing the vulnerability of resource-dependent people. This evaluation assesses how … well the World Bank has addressed natural resource degradation to reduce the vulnerabilities of resource-dependent people …
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Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables-like species-keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables-like oil and gas-can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures our survival and well-being, and the basis of...
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The objective of this study is to assess the short and long run effects of renewable and non-renewable resource rents on economic growth in Cameroon. Taking crude oil rents and forest resource rents as proxies for non-renewable and renewable resources abundance respectively for the period...
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