Why do some resource-abundant countries succeed while others do not?

By Ragnar Torvik. 2009

316 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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In Development

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2. Donghyeon Kim
3. A. Boschini
4. J. Pettersson
5. Jesper Roine
6. Kweku Adams
7. Dawda Adams
8. Jeremy Clark

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Donghyeon Kim
2. S. Lin
3. A. Boschini
4. J. Pettersson
5. Jesper Roine
6. Kweku Adams
7. Dawda Adams
8. Jeremy Clark

In Information Systems

1. Kweku Adams
2. Dawda Adams
3. S. Lin
4. Jeremy Clark
5. J. Pettersson
6. S. Ullah
7. Jesper Roine
8. Ramez Abubakr Badeeb

Citations in the corpus

• The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal (2013, background): “Torvik (2009) and van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010) point out that measures of reserves are not necessarily exogenous either.”
• Natural resources, financial development and institutional quality in Africa: Is there a resource curse? (2018, unknown): “Consistent with this view, Torvik (2009) and Sarmidi et al. (2014) argue that a good institutional framework dissipates the negative effects of natural resource endowments on growth.”
• The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey (2017, background): “Consistent with this view, Torvik (2009) argues that a good institutional apparatus forestalls the negative effects of natural resource endowments on growth.”
• The Quality of Political Institutions and the Curse of Natural Resources (2011, unknown): “However, as Torvik (2009) points out these measures are not really exogenous and likely to be biased against the resource curse: countries with good institutions are likely to have explored and found more of their resources than countries with bad institutions, hence well-functioning countries will…”
• The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana (2019, background): “The question still remains, however, as to why most resource-rich economies perform economically well while others owning the same quantity of resources perform poorly economically (Torvik, 2009).”
• Natural Resources and Economic Development: New Panel Evidence (2015, background): “However, Torvik (2009) and Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010) note that measures of reserves are not necessarily exogenous either.”