The Oil Curse: How petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations

By Pádraig Carmody. 2013

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Aid Is Not Oil: Donor Utility, Heterogeneous Aid, and the Aid-Democratization Relationship (2015, background): “See Ross 2001 and 2012, for a discussion of the links between oil and authoritarianism, including an excellent overview of the literature and potential causal pathways.”
Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “This is due to a lack of political incentives or institutions that impose constraints on policy makers (Elbadawi and Soto 2011; Ross 2012).”
Public capital in resource rich economies: is there a curse? (2014, background): “Inadequate public capital is a defining feature of poor countries.”
African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment (2014, background): “Similarly, Ross (2008, 2012) 1Most of the literature on the resource curse, including Ross (2008, 2012), has focused on the national level.”
The political economy of the ‘just transition’ (2013, background): “Some claim that developing nations awash in energy and natural resources – particularly those heavily reliant on exports for foreign exchange earnings – are prone to the resource curse where, as Ross puts it, ‘Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability and more”
The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria (2014, background): “13 Ross 2012.”
Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition (2020, background): “…volatility of oil revenues and other ‘oil curse’ effects, many ‘oil rich’ countries are seeking to diversify their economies, although the political implications of such a shift is often seen by domestic ruling elites as a possible threat to their oil-fuelled regime (Le Billon, 2013; Ross, 2012).”
Keeping the Public Purse: An Experiment in Windfalls, Taxes, and the Incentives to Restrain Government (2013, background): “…citizens were more and less satisfied with government performance. citizen demand for good government is often stated as a general (not context specific) proposition; the findings presented here are also consistent with existing national and cross-national empirical evidence (Ross 2001, 2012).”
Multinational corporations’ economic and human rights impacts on developing countries: a review and research agenda (2014, methodology): “The motivations are similar to those proposed in the ‘resource curse’ literature (Sachs and Werner, 1997; Frynas and Wood, 2001; Ross, 2012).”
Mining and Local Corruption in Africa (2017, background): “…Notably, several studies consider how natural resource wealth spurs authoritarianism, suggesting that resource abundance stabilizes autocratic regimes (e.g., Cuaresma, Oberhofer and Raschky, 2011; Andersen and Aslaksen, 2013), and inhibit democratization chances (e.g., Boix, 2003; Ross, 2012).”