Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies

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Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth (2016, background): “A literature on the ’resource curse’, where a cycle of conflict and poor governance that can be created when resource revenues are not managed in the interests of the population as a whole (van der Ploeg, 2006).”
More Oil, Less Democracy: Evidence from Worldwide Crude Oil Discoveries (2011, background): “7 van der Ploeg (2006) provides an overview of the resource curse literature.”
Why do some resource-abundant countries succeed while others do not? (2009, background): “In recent decades those countries richly endowed with valuable resources have had a worse economic development than countries poor in resources. van der Ploeg (2007) provides an interesting overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the resource curse.”
Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability: Evidence from Panel Data Regressions (2011, background): “Indeed, our paper is related to the literature on the impact of natural resources on economic growth, also known as the resource curse (see Van der Ploeg, 2006, for a survey).”
Public capital in resource rich economies: is there a curse? (2014, background): “Such a counterfactual is, of course, highly stylized, but for illustrative purposes we hold constant at the mean for our sample of resource rich countries all observed characteristics other than the resource rents themselves and our measures of public capital (See Appendix 2 for details of these var”