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The resource curse : which institutions matter?

Kolstad, Ivar - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 4/6, pp. 439-442

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Resource Curse, Political Entry, and Deadweight Costs

Tsui, Kevin K. - 2010

wealth on economic policy, political development, and civil insurrection. The model emphasizes the role of political entry … about popular support and hence resource wealth can help reduce the deadweight cost of taxation (and hence the cost of … public good provision). On the other hand, natural resource wealth can be a political curse, because it encourages political …

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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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Economic Shocks and Rebel Tactics : Evidence from Colombia

Wright, Austin L. - 2015

Why do rebels vary their tactics? Some insurgents employ terrorism and hit-and run attacks; others wage conventional wars against state rivals. Although recent scholarship studies how the technologies of rebellion differ across insurgencies, we have few explanations for why rebel tactics vary...

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Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices

Bazzi, Samuel; Blattman, Christopher - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 1-38

Higher national incomes are correlated with political stability. Is this relationship causal? We test three theories linking income to conflict with new data on export price shocks. Price shocks have no effect on new conflict, even large shocks in high-risk nations. Rising prices, however,...

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Discount Rate Distortions and the Resource Curse

Hu, Bin - 2016

Empirical evidence has suggested a “resource curse” exists, in which countries with abundant resources may have higher initial consumption but then grow more slowly. The effect appears to be dependent on a country's political structure. Theoretical models not typically accounted for...

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An Analysis of the Relevance of the Resource Curse to Australia, and Policy Implications

Bucifal, Stanislav; George, Terry; Ahmed, Nur - 2009

This paper and associated presentation explores the economic phenomenon of the so called ‘resource curse’. We begin by defining the phrase and outlining the main individual ‘curses’ and their causes to give the reader a broad understanding of what is meant by the phrase. This is followed...

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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2014

Large-scale land acquisitions, or "land grabs", concentrate in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given institutional set-up to strike deals with international...

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Natural Resources, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa

Park, Bokyeong - 2017

Development economists have found evidence that an abundance in natural resources hinders economic growth, contrary to conventional expectations. This finding is called the resource curse hypothesis. The major questions this paper addresses are: does the resource curse hypothesis apply to...

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Do capitalistic institutions breed billionaires?

Prinz, Aloys - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 51 (2016) 4, pp. 1319-1332

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