The “resource curse” from the oil and natural gas sector: how can Tanzania avoid it in reality?
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DOI: 10.1007/s13563-020-00235-2
Abstract: The discovery of a lot of natural resources such as petroleum, natural gas, and minerals has become the source of poverty, deprivation, and inequality in some countries. The failure to properly use those resources has… read more here.
Keywords: curse; resource curse; natural gas; natural resources ... See more keywords
The neglected role of local institutions in the ‘resource curse’ debate. Limestone mining in the Krobo region of Ghana
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2017.08.005
Abstract: The intense scholarly debate on the resource curse and political initiatives aimed at preventing it have largely focused on macro-economic aspects and national-level institutions and policies. Sub-national structures have received clearly less attention. We argue… read more here.
Keywords: mining; resource curse; role; debate ... See more keywords
Revisiting Chinese resource curse hypothesis based on spatial spillover effect: A fresh evidence
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101521
Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to revisit Chinese resource curse hypothesis in the recent era of globalization. The study used provincial panel data of China ranging from year 2005–2018. Spatial regression partial differential method has been… read more here.
Keywords: spillover effect; economic growth; resource curse; effect ... See more keywords
Is there Arctic resource curse? Evidence from the Russian Arctic regions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101547
Abstract: The ongoing interest in the Arctic and its immense natural wealth calls for better understanding the effects of resource development on the local Arctic economies. The idea that natural resources might be an economic curse… read more here.
Keywords: arctic regions; resource; curse; resource curse ... See more keywords
The competing role of natural gas and oil as fossil fuel and the non-linear dynamics of resource curse in Russia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102100
Abstract: Abstract The aim of this research is to address two emerging and relevant issues that have not been thoroughly investigated in the context of the Russian Federation. The first one is the increasing importance of… read more here.
Keywords: gas; oil fossil; competing role; resource curse ... See more keywords
Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104745
Abstract: Abstract What role do bureaucrats play in the development of the resource curse in countries that have recently discovered oil? Much of the resource curse literature argues that political leaders spend natural resource revenue in… read more here.
Keywords: resource; political spending; resource curse; oil ... See more keywords
The Rent Curse: Natural Resources, Policy Choice, and Economic Development
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DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2019.1663165
Abstract: More than twenty-five years have passed since Richard M. Auty famously proposed his hypothesis about what is currently known as the Resource Curse, which, at that time, mainly focused on the lack of growth and… read more here.
Keywords: curse; resource curse; rent; natural resources ... See more keywords
Colonial origins of the resource curse: endogenous sovereignty and authoritarianism in Brunei
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DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1678591
Abstract: ABSTRACT The literature on the political “resource curse” has recently seen heated debates over the average causal effects of oil on democracy and the generalizability of the theory. One of the reasons these disagreements remain… read more here.
Keywords: authoritarianism; curse; resource curse; colonial origins ... See more keywords
Is There a Resource Curse for Private Liberties
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DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqy031
Abstract: Scholarship on the political resource curse overwhelmingly focuses on whether oil wealth hinders the transition to democracy. In this note, I examine whether oil wealth negatively affects the private rights of the individual. I argue… read more here.
Keywords: curse private; oil wealth; resource curse; private liberties ... See more keywords
Shipping Policy to Fight the Resource Curse
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DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12544
Abstract: Transnational trade rules endow authoritarians and armed groups with unaccountable power in states rich with natural resources. This structural flaw in international trade generates the ‘resource curse’ phenomena that have driven many of the world's… read more here.
Keywords: resource; shipping policy; resource curse; fight resource ... See more keywords
A Multivariate VAR Model for Evaluating Sustainable Finance and Natural Resource Curse in West Africa: Evidence from Nigeria and Ghana
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DOI: 10.3390/su13052847
Abstract: The financial sector plays a critical role in society by mediating resources and assets within the economy between surplus and deficit units. Therefore, they have a great responsibility for the sustainability and prosperity of natural… read more here.
Keywords: finance; sustainable finance; resource; natural resource ... See more keywords