The resource curse

By Philippe Le Billon. 2005

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The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey (2017, background): “Economists have suggested that this volatility reduces economic growth, quite apart from trends in commodity prices (Davis and Tilton, 2005; Frankel, 2010). Market instability increases uncertainty, makes it difficult to measure revenues from the natural resource sector, and hampers effective planni”
The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana (2019, background): “There seems to be a consensus amongst many authors (Atkinson and Hamilton, 2003; Auty, 2002; Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2008; Davis and Tilton, 2005; Humphreys et al., 2007; Mehlum et al., 2006) that oil discovery in developing countries, particularly in Africa, remains a ‘curse’, rather than yieldin”
The Big Oil Change (2014, background): “…18 months after its February 2011 publication, it was cited more than 100 times by other scholars, and featured in influential policy journals (Kenny, 2010), World Bank publications (Sinnot, Nash, & De La Torre, 2010; Barma, Kaiser, Le, & Viñuela, 2011), and prominent blogs as evidence that…”
Natural Resources and the ‘Quality’ of Economic Development (2011, background): “The influence of natural resources on conflicts has been critically re-examined by Fearon (2005) and Fearon and Laitin (2006) who, by using the same approach as Collier and Hoeffler (2002), found that the relationship between primary commodities exports (in particular oil) and civil war is neither s”
Resource Blessing, Revenue Curse? Domestic Revenue Effort in Resource-Rich Countries (2014, background): “See, for example, Ross (1999), Davis and Tilton (2005), and Bornhorst, Gupta and Thornton (2009) for a review of the resource curse literature.”
Dealing with Dutch Disease (2010, background): “Natural Resource Abundance and Growth The influential studies by Sachs and Warner (1995, 2001) are representative of a stream of literature that finds that natural resource abundance has a strong negative impact on growth. In particular, they show that an increase of 10 percentage points in the rati”
China's Impact on Africa – The Role of Trade, FDI and Aid (2016, background): “Extracting and exporting natural resources could lead to rent-seek ing and corruption (Busse and Gröning, 2013).”