Shining a Light on the Resource Curse: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Natural Resources, Transparency, and Economic Growth

By Andrew Williams. 2011

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Building and Construction

1. E. Papyrakis
2. J. Acosta
3. A. James
4. S. Cooper
5. Robin W. Roberts
6. A. Belal
7. E. Gilberthorpe
8. Atsushi Iimi

In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. James
2. E. Papyrakis
3. E. Gilberthorpe
4. J. Acosta
5. S. Cooper
6. Robin W. Roberts
7. A. Belal
8. J. Weber

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Cooper
2. A. Belal
3. J. Acosta
4. A. James
5. E. Papyrakis
6. E. Gilberthorpe
7. Atsushi Iimi

Citations in the corpus

• Vulnerable and exploitable: The need for organisational accountability and transparency in emerging and less developed economies (2013, background): “The Nigerian disease, according to Williams (2011), relates the resource curse to a failure by the country’s government to make effective use of the revenues that flow from the natural resources.”
• The Impact and Effectiveness of Accountability and Transparency Initiatives: The Governance of Natural Resources (2013, background): “More recently, Williams (2011) has documented the positive effect of transparency (measured as a country’s willingness to release information on fiscal transactions) in minimising the threat of a resource curse.”
• Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) (2016, unknown): “Williams (2011).”
• The Resource Curse: A Statistical Mirage? (2015, background): “While others have similarly tested for a resource curse (Papyrakis and Gerlagh, 2007; Williams, 2010; James and Aadland, 2010), this methodology has since been heavily criticized.”
• The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, unknown): “…(Cotet and Tsui, 2013), the spread of HIV/AIDS (de Soysa and Gizelis, 2013), international conflict and cooperation (Colgan 2010, Ross and Voeten 2012, Caselli, Roehner, and Morelli 2013), and levels of government transparency (Egorov, Guriev, and Sonin 2009, Williams 2011, Kolstad and Wiig 2009).”
• The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “…2002, for rule of law, see Kolstad, 2009; Norman, 2009; Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian, 2012; for quality of bureaucracy, see Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2008, Isham et al., 2005; for property rights protection see Baggio and Papyrakis, 2010; Brunnschweiler, 2008, for transparency see Williams, 2011).”