The Varieties of Rentier Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth *

By J. Isham, M. Woolcock, L. Pritchett, G. Busby. 2003

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Resource intensity, institutions, and development (2005, background): “Isham et al. (2003) have shown that the resource curse result spills over to some agricultural products, or more correctly, modes of agricultural production associated with certain crops, but not to others.”
Resource curse: An analysis of causes, experiences and possible ways forward (2007, background): “Isham et al. (2005) have drawn on this distinction to explain why all natural resource exporters have suffered substantial economic slowdowns since the 1980s.”
Cursing the blessings? Natural resource abundance, institutions, and economic growth (2008, background): “From a more qualitative angle, historians, political scientists, and economists generally agree that the presence of abundant natural resources (especially minerals) leads to rent-seeking behaviour and corruption, thereby decreasing the quality of government, which in turn negatively affects economi”
Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions (2007, background): “Ross (1999), Baland and Francois (2000), Auty (2001), Busby et al. (2002), Isham et al. (2003), Torvik (2002), Mehlum, Moene, and Torvik (2005), Robinson, Torvik, and Verdier (2006), Wick and Bulte (2006), Caselli (2006) and many others also put forward political economy explanations of how natural…”
The Natural Resource Curse and Economic Transition (2011, background): “One might expect, therefore, that if the curse of natural resources does exist, it would be particularly pronounced in these 1 The term “point-source” resources was introduced by Isham et al. (2003).”
Does the 'Resource Curse' Hold for Growth in Genuine Income as Well? (2004, background): “More important, resource abundance might lead to a rentier economy with a predatory state: corruption, political conflict and inequalities are rampant, economic institutions are poorly developed, human capital accumulation, entrepeneurship and innovative activity are crowded out and policy makers ar”
The political economy of the resource curse : a literature survey (2006, background): “…Monetary Fund (Bannon and Collier 2003; Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian 2003; Davis et al. 2003; Leite and Weidmann 1999; Sarraf and Jiwanji 2001: Isham et al. 2002; Eifert et al. 2003; Gelb and Associates 1988), as well as by many NGOs (see, for instance, Save the Children 2003; Oxfam 2002).”
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa (2019, background): “Lorsque l’impact négatif des ressources naturelles sur la croissance à long terme du PIB (à travers leur effet sur la gouvernance et les institutions publiques) est pris en compte, la présence de ressources pétrolières et minérales a tendance à favoriser les perspectives de croissance (Isham et al.,”
Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving (2007, unknown): “Unsurprisingly, the resource curse on economic growth has generated a substantial literature over the past half-century or more that has sought to explain it (Auty 2001; Isham et al. 2003; Gylfason 2001; Atkinson and Hamilton 2003; Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian 2003).”
Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse (2006, background): “Important contributions, highlighting various dimensions of the causal link, include Sachs and Warner (1997), Auty (2001a,b), Gylfason and Zoega (2001), Acemoglu et al. (2001), Sachs and Warner (2001), Torvik (2002), Isham et al. (2003) and Mehlum et al. (2003).”