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The resource curse revisited and revised : a tale of paradoxes and red herrings

Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2006

We critically evaluate the empirical basis for the so-called resource curse and find that, despite the topic’s popularity in economics and political science research, this apparent paradox is a red herring. The most commonly used measure of ‘resource abundance’ can be more usefully...

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Democracy vs. dictatorship : comparing the evolution of economic growth under two political regimes

Schiffbauer, Marc; Shen, Ling - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 1, pp. 59-90

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Productivity growth across the world, 1991 - 2003

Kim, Sangho; Park, Donghyun; Park, Jong-Ho - 2010

world productivity growth was led by fast-growing newly emerging economies, whereas most developed countries experienced a …

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Banking competition and economic growth : cross-country evidence

Fernández de Guevara, Juan; Maudos, Joaquín - In: The European journal of finance 17 (2011) 7/8, pp. 739-764

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The vanishing effect of finance on growth

Gründler, Klaus - 2015

This paper investigates the causes of the "vanishing effect of finance" detected in recent studies. The results highlight that the negative effect of the financial system on growth is mainly driven by advanced economies, whereas finance is still beneficial for income increases in developing...

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Understanding the resource curse (or blessing) across national and regional scales : theory, empirical challenges and an application

Fleming, David A.; Measham, Thomas G.; Paredes, Dusan - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 59 (2015) 4, pp. 624-639

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …

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Words, deeds, and outcomes : a survey on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes

Harms, Philipp; Kretschmann, Marco - 2007

Recent studies on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes offer a wide range of different, sometimes contradictory results. In this paper, we systematically compare three prominent contributions in this field. Using a common data set, a common specification, and common estimation methods, we...

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Nature, power, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …

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How democracy could foster economic growth : the last 200 years

Leonard, Carol Scott; Shestakov, Daniel; Janovskij, K. - 2014

In this paper we explore current understandings of the influence of political rights, among historical legacies, on economic development. We construct variables for selected political regimes for 1811-2010. We find significant association between individual rights and economic growth. We argue...

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