Extractive Sectors and the Poor

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Corruption, Underdevelopment, and Extractive Resource Industries: Addressing the Vicious Cycle (2006, background): “natural resource dependent suffer from lower economic growth rates than those whose economies are concentrated on other sectors (Sachs and Warner 1995) and that oil dependence is directly linked to lower growth and, indirectly, to the condition of the poor through lack of health care and education (”
Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia (2012, background): “Ross (2001) demonstrates a correlation between dependent, extractive economies like Bolivia's and low overall standards of living, severe income inequality, and a high poverty rate.”
Revenues, State Formation, and the Quality of Governance in Developing Countries (2004, background): “” In particular, when other relevant variables such as income levels are taken into account, oil and mineral states are likely (1) to be relatively undemocratic (Ross, 2001b; Wantchekon, 2000),(20) (2) to suffer from weak rule of law (Wantchekon, 2000), and (3) to exhibit higher levels of malnutriti”
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse (2011, background): “Beginning with a seminal article by Ross (2001), numerous scholars have employed cross-country regression frameworks to examine the hypothesis that oil, gas, and minerals cause authoritarianism.”