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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Resource curse"”.
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Mineral wealth versus resource curse - the stage is set
The debate regarding the impact of resource wealth being a curse rather than a benefit has been a subject of debate since the 1950’s. Only since Sachs and Warner, (1995) the ground-breaking study which confirmed a negative relationship between resource abundance and economic growth for a selected …
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The Resource Curse and Peru: A Potential Threat for the Future?
… some countries to successfully use their natural resources towards development and economic growth while for others stagnation and impoverishment? The resource curse theory has helped economists explain this observation. This work examines how Peru has been able to produce strong economic growth …
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The Royal Bafokeng nation, a Case Study for the resource Curse
Resource curse literature examines the causes and consequences of natural resources on economies. Within the literature, politico-economic theories provide insight into the relationship between institutional strength, the incentives facing the political elite due to the natural resource and the …
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Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry
Natural resource endowments are no guarantee of socioeconomic development. Many developing countries are rich in natural resources (minerals, oil, gas, hydropower), and yet many of their citizens remain in poverty and their economies have failed to grow; the "paradox of plenty". Despite its natural …
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Diamonds, a resource curse? : the case of Kono District in Sierra Leone
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Geography, 2010
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Preventing the resource curse? : an examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
The resource curse is a theory which argues that rather than being a conduit for development natural resources can in fact lead to slow growth, civil war and hinder democracy. This thesis focuses specifically on the inverse relationship between dependence on the export of natural resources and slow …
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Trade, fiscal transfers, diversity and the resource curse : evidence from Canada and the US
… trade openness, economic diversity, resource curse and economic growth – all within a Canada-US sub-national framework. Chapter 1 provides the motivation for the study and sets the stage for the various empirical-based policy trade-offs and insights arrived at in the subsequent …
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Assessing resource curse risks in namibia's green hydrogen developments with insights from diamond mining
… Several countries with abundant wind and solar resources are envisioning to become major green hydrogen producers and exporters. Economic history, however, cautions against a high resource-sector dependence, with a well-developed literature on the resource curse. Namibia is one of these …
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Does Natural Resource Wealth Spoil and Corrupt Governments? A New Test of the Resource Curse Thesis
Countries with rich natural resource endowments suffer from lower economic growth and various other ills. This work tests whether the resource curse also extends to the quality of regulation and the level of corruption. A theoretical framework is developed that informs the specification of …
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Environmental Policy In A Petro-State: The Resource Curse And Political Ecology In Canada'S Oil Frontier
… development. The theoretical frameworks of the resource curse and political ecology literatures guide this analysis within the broader context of work on petro-capitalism. I use qualitative methodologies, primarily semi-structured interviews and a review of scholarly, government, and publicly …
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Effect of Resource Curse on Child Well-being in Resource-rich States, Specifically in Post-Soviet States
… I had just landed in my next country, the second resource-rich country I was visiting to collect data for my dissertation. I took a taxi from the airport to go to my hotel. The radio was playing Russian pop music. As we started to drive, I was shocked to see gleaming buildings, wide roads, lights, …
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The role of Oil in Economic Development -The case of Libya (1970-2010).
… of this thesis are to: (1) examine if the resource curse exists in the context of Libya; (2) assess the role of institutions in avoiding or minimising the resource curse, and; (3) evaluate institutional and economic reforms required, and the best options to diversify the economy from oil, …
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Essays in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies and market dynamics
Countries rich in natural resources may be deemed to have an economic advantage with regards to their economic growth. However, this has been questioned as such countries have been found to underperform those that are significantly disadvantaged in terms of such resources, leading to what has been …
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State ownership, petroleum revenue, and the enduring legacy of authoritarianism in Angola
… Theoretically, it builds on the ideas of the resource curse hypothesis, which refers to the adverse effects of abundant non-renewable resources on a country's socio-economic and political outcomes. In addition to these findings of an adverse impact of non-renewable resources, this study argues …
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Three essays in economic development and growth
… In the third chapter, a class of models of resource curse that can disentangle price and quantity effects of the discovery of raw natural resources is discussed.
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The political economy of oil in Nigeria: How oil's impact on rent distribution has contributed to Nigeria's sub-optimal economic performance
… is widely believed to be a result of the natural resource curse. The natural resource curse is a phenomenon attributed to the inverse relationship between economic growth rates and the natural resource abundance of countries, and several notions have been put forward as to the mechanism through …
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