Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars

By Christa N. Brunnschweiler, Erwin H. Bulte. 2009

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Do Natural Resources Attract Nonresource FDI? (2013, methodology): “…by natural resource abundance, as measured by the World Bank (1997) estimates of subsoil assets, and institutional and constitutional variables, the resource curse turns out to be a red herring, while resource abundance has a significant positive effect on growth (Brunnschweiler & Bulte, 2008).”
Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth (2016, result): “…peak growth rates, but higher tails than stable ones, while high natural resource extraction countries have a lower peak growth rates and a lower tail than low, which is consistent with the findings of Alesina (1996), Jong-A-Pin (2009), Alexeev and Conrad (2009) and Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2009).”
The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Countries that are more ethnically homogenous are more likely to avoid conflict in the presence of mineral resources (Bjorvatn and Naghavi, 2011; Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2009; Esteban et al., 2012; Herbst, 2000; Hodler, 2006).”
Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America (2018, positive): “3Cross-country studies following on Sachs and Warner have arrived at different results when instrumenting for resource abundance (Brunnschweiler and Bulte 2009), including country fixed effects (Manzano and Rigobon 2001), using different measures of resource intensity (Lederman and Maloney 2007b)…”
Resource Curse: New Evidence on the Role of Institutions (2014, background): “…new and contradicting empirical evidence to the existing NRC literature, demonstrating that an abundance of natural resources evidently has a positive relationship on economic growth as well as economic welfare (for instance, Boyce & Emery, 2011; Brunnschweiler, 2008; Brunnschweiler & Bulte, 2009).”
Extending the concept of the resource curse: natural resources and public spending on health (2014, methodology): “We include a measure on the initial level of income by adding World Bank data on GDP per capita, reported in current US dollars, at the beginning of every five year period (see Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2009).”
The Resource Curse: A Statistical Mirage? (2015, background): “They nd some evidence of a 3In contrast, Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2009) nd little evidence to support the claim that natural resources lead to increased social con ict.”
The Pungent Smell of 'Red Herrings': Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse (2010, neutral): “(http://en.wikipedia.org/) 6 Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2009) also argue that the detrimental effect of natural resources on war and conflict established and further evaluated by Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004, 2005), Reynal-Querol (2002), Ross (2004), Ron(2005) and Fearon (2005) among others, is…”