University of San Francisco
The Resource Curse and Peru: A Potential Threat for the Future?
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>What explains the ability of 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 in the last 20 years despite the economy’s strong dependence on its natural resource extractive industry. Peru has been able to avoid many of the pitfalls and traps that resource curse literature considers to be detrimental to economic growth. This article examines the resource based economies of four other countries (Venezuela, Chile, Nigeria, and Botswana) and identifies successful policies that have aided economic growth versus those that have had the opposite effect.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in International Studies
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- International Studies
- Year dc:date.available
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cruz, Sergio
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- John Gonzales
Subjects
dc:subject × 12Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/4
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.usfca.edu:thes-1002